Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to…

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.235, Courier Corporation
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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.235, Courier Corporation

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