You Can Not Be Honest With Others, If You Are Not First Honest With Yourself.
I__ a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I__e invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.
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I__ a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I__e invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.
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