We are masters at knowing how to lie to ourselves. We pay a heavy price for this self-deception.

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“Truly good people are always ready and even, at times, highly enthusiastic about telling lies. This sounds odd only because we are in the grip of a heroic but indiscriminate and delusional addiction to truth-telling…”

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