Quote by John Updike
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived po

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself. – Terri Guillemets

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. – Merry Browne

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. – Author Unknown

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