The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

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• P. J. O'Rourke:

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• Dick Van Dyke:

  Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.

• Lee Kuan Yew:

  I know if I rest, I'll slide downhill fast.