مَن يكذب لا يدرك حجمَ المهمّة التي يتصدّى لها، إذ لا بدّ أن يختلق عشرين كذبة أخرى ليحمي تلك الكذبة الأولى.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”Alexander Pope — The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq (1847)