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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A deceitful person may expect everyone else to hide a strategy too. Straightforward honesty frustrates that expectation because there is no concealed trick to uncover. The sentence presents integrity as disarming precisely because it refuses to operate by the rules of manipulation.
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