Stick with The Truth

 "It is of great importance to set a resolution, 

not to be shaken, 

never to tell an untruth. 

"There is no vice so mean, 

so pitiful, 

so contemptible; 

and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, 

finds it much easier to do it a second 

and a third time, 

till at length it becomes habitual; 

he tells lies without attending to it, 

and truths without the world's believing him."

---Thomas Jefferson (1785)

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