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You know where you are with a complete liar, but when a chap mixes some truth with his yarns, you can't trust a word he says.

— Joyce Cary The Horse's Mouth (1944)

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Honesty

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Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Joyce Cary (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.