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We cannot pardon. We are to say what we take the law to be: if we do not speak our real opinions, we prevaricate with God and our own consciences.
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My books are not quite the books I was to write when you and I were young. But I have made at worst some neat, precise and joyous little tales which prevaricate tenderly about the universe and veil the pettiness of human nature with screens ...


— James Branch Cabell, in The Certain Hour, p.189

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Lying is the same as alcoholism . Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.


— Anton Chekhov, in prevaricate – vocabulary

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We cannot pardon . We are to say what we take the law to be:;; if we do not speak our real opinions, we prevaricate with God and our own consciences .


— Lord Mansfield, in The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 11, p.140

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Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat! Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."


— Canto I, line 821.

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From all the rest I single out you, You are to die-let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate, I am exact and merciless , but I love you there is no escape for you.


— Walt Whitman, in The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War

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