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The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and you'll get caught. Once suspicion is planted it becomes exponentially harder to sell the next lie.

The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and you'll get caught. Once suspicion is planted it becomes exponentially harder to sell the next lie.

Approximate author period: c. 2010 AD · contemporary

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Victoria Schwab
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Approximate author period: c. 2010 AD · contemporary
Approximate author-period evidence for V. E. Schwab: documented activity in 2010. Wikidata Q17468111, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17468111 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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