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When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
Novelist
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Calcutta
William Makepeace Thackeray
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