"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!"
Sir Walter Scott, 1808
From his poem "Marmion".
When we first start "shading" the truth it's usually a little thing and doesn't seem all that bad. But as we become more adept at being deceitful we can easily find ourselves in a world where no one can trust what we say.
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