How to be ruie and yet polite is a study that amounts almost to a fine art. In parliamentary language you may Bay that a man is not wedded to the truth, or sometimes suffers from 9 spirit of exaggeration, or occasionally fi.ads It dlfftoult to confine himself strictly to actualities, or la a pastm^ster In \\q pleasing art of realistically romancing, or ia partial m desorlbloc nature, to borrowing from th* - BBea OJf0 J f romance, or is rauoh giv*- to an J r g fiola i reoolleotlGß o* ' m , 8 i eading flta tiatlcß, or panna* distinguish the false from the true, with a bius toward the former, or has a distinct liking for the utteranoo of statements of a misleading oharaoter ; but you must not — no, you most not — you really muat not — call him a liar !
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1904, 28 July 1888, Page 3
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140Untitled Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1904, 28 July 1888, Page 3
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