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Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Quotes: ...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.
         

...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.


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