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The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

Washington Allston
Lying, Peculiar, Half
Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.

Washington Allston
Lying, Thinking, Traveler
Washington Allston (1993). “The Correspondence of Washington Allston”, p.15, University Press of Kentucky

Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

Washington Allston
Lying, Toads, Hundred
Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.173

It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.

Washington Allston
Kings, Lying, Blow
Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.170

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