Lynn Thompson
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Chapter fourteen
Lies white and black.
There are ten thousand ways of telling a lie, said
A man's entire life may be a falsehood, but
While with his lips he may not once directly falsify the
There are those who state what is positively untrue, but afterwards say maybe softly.
These departures from the truth are called white lies, but there is really no such thing as a white lie.
The whitest lie that was ever told was as black as perdition.
No inventory of public crimes will be sufficient that amidst this gigantic abomination.
There are men high in church and state, actually useful, self denying, and honest in many things, who, upon certain subjects and in certain spheres, are not at all to be depended upon for veracity.
Indeed, there are multitudes of men who have
who have their notions of truthfulness so thoroughly perverted that they do not know when they are lying.
With many it is called a cultivated sin.
With some it seems a natural infirmity.
I have known people who seem to have been born liars.
The falsehoods of their lives extended from cradle to grave.
Prevarication, misrepresentation, and dishonesty of speech appeared in their first utterances in
And was as natural to them as any of their infantile diseases, and was a sort of moral croup.
Or spiritual scarlatina.
But many have been placed in circumstances where this tendency has day by day and hour by hour been called to larger development.
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