[T]he peculiar stringency of the duty of veracity seems to spring from an implicit understanding that language shall be used to convey the real opinions of the speakers, and it would seem that a failure to carry out the understanding on one side makes it no longer binding on the other; and we should have small patience with an habitual liar who insisted on strict veracity in others.
(W. D. Ross, The Right and the Good [Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1988], 54 [first published in 1930])
