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Lin Yutang Quotes: Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
         

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.


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Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
         



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