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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
— Oliver Cromwell
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Two qualities get set against each other here: cleverness and honesty. Subtlety can trick you, the speaker warns, dressing things up in ways that mislead. Integrity, by contrast, is presented as reliably trustworthy, incapable of that same deception.
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