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People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

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Anne Perry
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: October 28
Author
Novelist
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London
England
Juliet Marion Hulme
Disagreeable
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Sin
Lies
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