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Asked by the child why grownups always lie, Phillip answers that it’s because lying is easier than telling the truth.

Webb writes that, a few hours before broadcast, he made a decision based on "little more than a gut feeling" that the BBC had been lying and Earl Spencer had been telling the truth.

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The Met Office said there was a potential for lows of -12C in areas of lying snow continuing into Friday.

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Tourists flock to the savannah by the hundreds of thousands, hoping to catch sight of the herds as they run a gantlet of crocodiles lying in wait in the Mara River.

In fact, her Jewish lover was lying in the base of a heavy mahogany sofa bed that was locked from the inside; he had codeine to suppress his persistent cough.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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