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You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Deception has limits. A trickster can mislead everyone briefly, or mislead some people permanently, but cannot keep the whole population fooled forever. The saying carries a confident faith that, given enough time and enough observers, falsehood tends to be noticed and exposed.
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