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Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not…

Quote byGeorge Bernard Shaw · 1856–1950

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Quintessence Of Ibsenism (1891; 1913), The Two Pioneers.

English (original)

Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

— George Bernard Shaw

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