Richard Steele Quote

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.


The Spectator: A Corrected Edition, with Prefaces Historical and Biographical (ed. 1806)


A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.