“You lie; you always were a liar, and you always will be a liar.”
H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) English writer of adventure novels
Dawn (1884), CHAPTER I
“A liar is always lavish of oaths.”
Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.
Clariste, act III, scene v.
Le Menteur (The Liar) (1643)
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Ego verum amo, verum vol mihi dici : mendacem odi.
Mostellaria, Act I, scene 3, line 26
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)
