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For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lying, Men, Thinking
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.391
For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.