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A lie can travel halfway around the world

  A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! - Walt Whitman The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. - Benjamin Franklin I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. - Ring Lardner The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. - Daniel Webster I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. - Sir Winston Churchill READ MORE