I agreed to accept the money, it was paid, and I remained silent.
Frequently the difference between an acted lie and a spoken lie is the difference between success and failure.

Then, too, the acted lie has this advantage; there is no commandment against it.

We should congratulate ourselves that so many pleasant sins were omitted on Sinai.
At the end of a week after our great adventure I went to the country, and within a fortnight returned to find that my place in the Wardrobe was taken by another, and my place in the king's smile by the world at large; at least, it was lost to me.
When a wise courtier loses his king's smile, he takes himself out of his king's reach.

Therefore I cast about in my mind for a London friend who would like to possess my title.

I thought of Sir William Wentworth, rather of his wife, and suggested to her that for the sum of thirty thousand pounds I would resign my estates and title to the king, if Sir William would arrange for their transfer to himself.