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I have been sometimes thinking, if a man had the art of second sight for seeing lies . . . how admirably he might entertain himself in this town, by observing the different shapes, sizes, and colors of those swarms of lies which buzz about the heads of some people like flies about a horse's ears in summer.
-- Jonathan Swift
The superiority of his genius consists in nothing else but an exhaustible fund of political lies, which he plentifully distributes every minute he speaks, and by an unparalleled generosity forgets, and consequently contradicts the next half-hour. He never yet considered whether any proposition were true or false, but whether it were convenient for the present minute or company to affirm or deny it .. The only remedy is to suppose that you have heard some inarticulate sounds, without any meaning at all.