“I mean you lie—under a mistake.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“You lie—under a mistake,
For this is the most civil sort of lie
That can be given to a man's face. I now
Say what I think.”
Translation of Calderon's Magico Prodigioso, Scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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