"Anything is better than lies and deceit" — Leo Tolstoi

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

Source: The Will to Believe (1897)

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage

Source: Cato, act 2 (1713)

Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

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