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Will you prai hideous prents and homely kids?
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Will you say to people, 20when it simply isn''t true, "I like your new hairdo," "You''re looking much better," "It''s so o e you," "I had a wonderful time"?
Will you prai hideous prents and homely kids?
Will you dee invitations with "We''re busy that night - so sorry we ''t e," 25wheruth is you''d rather stay home than dih the So-and-sos?
And even though, as I do, you may prefer the polite evasion of "You really cooked up a storm" instead of "The soup" - which tastes like warmed-over coffee - "is wonderful," will you, if you must, 30proclaim it wonderful?
There''s one man I know who absolutely refus to tell social lies. "I ''t play that game," he says; "I''m simply not made that way." And his ao the argument that saying hings to someone doesn''t cost anything is, "Yes, it does - it destroys your credibility." 35Now, he won''t, unsolicited, offer his views on the painting you just bought, but you don''t ask his frank opinion unless you want frank, and his sile tho moments when the rest of us liars are muttering, "Isn''t it lovely?" is, for the most part, eloquent enough. My friend does not 40indulge in what he calls "flattery, fal prai and mellifluous ents." When others tell fibs he will not go along. He says that social lying is lying, that little white lies are still lies. And he feels that telling lies is morally wrong. What about you?