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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt:
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox,
uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his
flashing moments : " Give us the luxuries of life,
and we will dispense with its necessaries."
Holmes—Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. VI.
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.
Hannah Mobe—Belshazzar.
Luxury and dissipation, soft arid gentle as
their approaches are, and silently as they throw
their silken chains about the heart, enslave it
more than the most active and turbulent vices.
Hannah More—Essays. Dissipation.
On his weary couch
Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,
Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam
That through his lattice peeped derisively.
Pollok—Course of Time. Bk. VII. L 69.
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth,
which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart,
and a sting in her tail.
Quarles—Emblems. Bk. I. Hugo.
Rings put upon his fingers,
A most delicious banquet by his bed,
And brave attendants near him when he wakes,
Would not the beggar then forget himself?
Taming of the Shrew. Induction. Sc. 1. L. 38.
Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
Thomson—The Seasons. Summer. L. 67.
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A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre.
Liars are always most disposed to swear.
Alfieri—Virginia. II. 3.
Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,
Che la facesse di menzogna rea.
But that he wrought so high the specious tale,
As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.
Ariosto—Orlando Furioso. XVIII. 84.
And none speaks false, when there is none to hear.
Beat-tie—The Minstrel. Bk. II. St. 24.
And, after all, what is a lie? Tis but
The truth in masquerade.
| author = Byron
| work = Don Juan. Canto XL St. 37.
I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies!
If captains the remark, or critics, make,
Why they lie also—under a mistake.
| author = Byron
| work = Don Juan.
| seealso = (See also Calderon, Swift)
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| text = Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
Burke—Impeachment of Warren Hastings.
(May 7, 1789.}})
| topic = Lying
| page = 485
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| text = <poem>Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat;
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 821.
You he—under a mistake—
For this is the most civil sort of lie
That can be given to a man's face, I now
Say what I think.
Calderon—El Magico Prodigioso. Sc. 1.
Trans, by Shelley.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Byron)
Ita enim finitima sunt falsa veris ut in praecipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man
would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Cicero—Academici. IV. 21.
Mendaei homini ne verum quidem dicenti
credere solemus.
A liar is not believed even though he tell the
truth.
Cicero—De Divinatione. II. 71. Same idea
inPaBDRUS—Fables. I. 10. 1.
The silent colossal National Lie that is the
support and confederate of all the tyrannies and
shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that
afflict the peoples—that is the one to throw
bricks and sermons at.
S. L. Clemens
| cog = (Mark Twain)
| work = My First Lie.
An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and
often quite picturesque liar.
S. L. Clemens
| cog = (Mark Twain)
| work = My Military
Campaign.
Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
Corneille—Le Menteur. III. 5.
II faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.
A good memory is needed once we have lied.
Corneille—Le Menteur. IV. 5.
| seealso = (See also Montaigne, Quintilian, Sidney)
| topic = Lying
| page = 485
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| text = <poem>Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd
with lies,
To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.
Dryden—Absalom and Achitophel.
Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn
ich luge, nicht.
When I err every one can see it, but not when
Hie.
Goethe—Spruche in Prosa. III.
As ten millions of circles can never make a
square, so the united voice of myriads cannot
lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
| author = Goldsmith
| work = Vicar of Wakefield. Vol.11. Ch.
Half the world knows not how the other half lies.
| author = Herbert
| work = Jacula Prudentum.
