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Half the truth is often a great lie.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Truth, Lying
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.90, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

Benjamin Franklin
Truth, Honesty, Lying
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

Benjamin Franklin
Lying, Lust, Deceit
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.101, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Lying rides upon debt's back.

Benjamin Franklin
Lying, Debt, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

Benjamin Franklin
Lying, Wine, Games
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.239

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

Benjamin Franklin
Running, Lying, Debt Free
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.291, Barnes & Noble Publishing

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

Benjamin Franklin
Lying, Thinking, Growing
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.301

Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

Benjamin Franklin
Honesty, Lying, Hands
Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.149

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

Benjamin Franklin
Lying, Animal, Bugs
Letter to Georgiana Shipley, 26 Sept. 1772.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

Benjamin Franklin
Husband, Lying, Humorous
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

Benjamin Franklin
Tombstone, Lying, Book

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