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WHICH IS WORSE?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jul 26, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 30.

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WHICH IS WORSE?

A LITTLE girl came in her night clothes very early one morning to her mother, saying:
"Which is worse, mama, to tell a lie or to steal?"
The mother, taken by surprise, replied that both were so bad that she couldn't tell which was the worse.
"Well," said the little one, "I've been thinking a good deal about it, and I think what's worst: it's worse to lie than to steal. If you steal a thing you can take it back, unless you've eaten it; and if you have eaten it you can pay for it. "But—and there was a look of awe in the little face—" a lie is forever." -Selected.