the last biggest lie
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larvatusWhat are the five biggest lies?
“The check is in the mail.”
“I won’t come in your mouth.”
“Some of my best friends are Jewish.”
“Black is beautiful.”
“I’m from your government, and I’m here to help you.”
“I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”
“The check is in the mail.”
“I won’t come in your mouth.”
“Some of my best friends are Jewish.”
“Black is beautiful.”
“I’m from your government, and I’m here to help you.”
— Blanche Knott (Ashton Applewhite), Truly Tasteless Jokes, 1983, p. 104
“I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”
— William F. Buckley Jr., Yale alumnus, Rumbles Left and Right: A Book about Troublesome People and Ideas, 1963, p. 134
