They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms” (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).
Giacomo Casanova, The Complete Memoirs of Casanova (Unexpurgated Edition)
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