The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

William Hazlitt
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If a person wants to be a great liar, all they have to do is pretend to have a talent or skill that they don’t have. If a person is confident enough, they can even learn how to mask their lies by using big words and obfuscating their true meaning. This quote from Mark Twain captures this idea.

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