It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying…

Samuel Johnson
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. ✨ Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson, p.67
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. ✨ Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson, p.67

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