[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
William Makepeace ThackerayWhen one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
William Makepeace ThackerayIt is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray