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That must be why lying is such a common sin. It’s successful and makes life easier.
Thomas Jefferson had said, “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”
Rick LaFleur had learned to lie well and young when he went undercover in New Orleans, and now it was simply part of him.
