When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.

William Makepeace Thackeray
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  5. There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

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