Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. ✨ Jose…

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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. ✨ Joseph Addison (1828). A Selection [- Second Selection] from the Paper of Addison: In the Spectator and Guardian, for the Use of Young Persons, p.93
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. ✨ Joseph Addison (1828). A Selection [- Second Selection] from the Paper of Addison: In the Spectator and Guardian, for the Use of Young Persons, p.93

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