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to swear

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Liars are always most disposed to swear. Vittorio Alfieri

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed! Helena Bonham Carter

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. George Bernard Shaw

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. Terry Pratchett

Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two. Honoré de Balzac

If you tell the truth, you don't have to swear. Yiddish Proverb

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