“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 good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.”
Source: The Prisoner of Heaven
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