Friday, August 22, 2014

Tangled Webs...

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!" wrote Sir Walter Scott in his poem "In Marmion" (1808, canto VI, stanza XVII).


On AUGUST 19, 1785, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Peter Carr:

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual;

he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."

2 comments:

Lois Evensen said...

So true and so appropriate to apply to the events these days....

River Glorious said...

Unfortunately, yes. :(