White lies, polite lies [ Reading & Writing / Communication ]
… to a good story, told in a sociable setting, were acceptable, he maintained, unless they smacked of vanity, and he was particularly annoyed with those who wanted to be ‘the heroes of their own fables’ ( Ibid ). David Hume similarly made … daughters: ‘Have a Sacred regard to Truth. Lying is a mean and despicable vice. – I have known some women of excellent parts, who were so much addicted to it, that they could not be trusted in the relation of any story, especially if [...] … face-saving stories). 8 . John Gregory, A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters, 3rd ed. (Dublin, 1774), p. 23. ‘The human heart is prone to insincerity’, Hester Chapone ominously declared in the Letters on the Improvement of the Mind , and …
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