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Judith Viorst Quotes: Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.
         

Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.


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Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.



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I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.



I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.



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READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.



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Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.



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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.





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This page presents the quote "Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.". Author of this quote is Judith Viorst. This quote is about telling the truth, truth is, bad manners, polite, lying,.