White lies, polite lies [ Reading & Writing / Communication ]
… Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, ed. Thomas F. Bonnell, 4 vol. (Edinburgh, New Haven and London: Edingburgh and Yale University Presses, 2020), vol. 4, p. 38. 5 . Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, … did not appeal to moralists. 7 . William Paley, The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, 2 vols., 4th ed. (London, 1787), vol 1, ch. XV, p. 184-85. Fiction was too close to the lie to be generally considered a venial form of … company had left (169). 9 . Hester Chapone, Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady, 8th ed. (London, 1778). 10 . For negative politeness and its connections to lies, see Harald Weinrich, Linguistik der Lüge …
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