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“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On the Decay of the Art of Lying, published in The Stolen White Elephant: Etc, Pages 220-221 (1882)
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a900f41a7ef8d1aaeef527d77263560935ef177ef97ded44e8a260271003ba77
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