That is certainly the case.

Still, a man is not a reasoning being merely because he is an idiot." After glancing a little further through the pages of Professor Ball's lectures, he resumed his writing: "Ordinary indications of maniacal excitement, and, if it be taken into consideration that the subject was of a neuropathic temperament, there is reason to believe that his constitution predisposed him to insanity, which, according to the highest authorities, is merely an exaggeration of the habitual temperament of the individual, and hence it is not possible to credit him with full moral responsibility." He signed the sheet and handed it to Pradel, saying: "Here's something that is innocuous and too devoid of meaning to contain the slightest falsehood." Pradel rose and said: "Believe me, my dear doctors we should not have asked you to tell a lie." "Why not?
I am a medical man.

I keep a lie-shop.

I relieve, I console.
How is it possible to relieve and console without lying ?" Then, with a sympathetic glance at Nanteuil; he added: "Only women and physicians know how necessary untruthfulness is, and how beneficial to man." And, as Pradel, Constantin Mate, and Romilly were taking their leave, he said: "Pray go out by the dining-room.

I've just received a small cask of old Armagnac.