What is lie?

Lie

To lie is to deliver a false statement to another person which the speaking person knows is not the whole truth, intentionally.

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Famous quotes containing the word lie:

    “His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as a spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor.”
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