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There are two kinds of lies, lies with short legs and lies with long noses. Yours, just now, happen to have long noses.

— Carlo Collodi The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883)

Vi sono le bugie che hanno le gambe corte, e le bugie che hanno il naso lungo: la tua per l'appunto è di quelle che hanno il naso lungo.

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