A good dissembler

I said it had been, but fortunately I was a good dissembler.
   ‘You must be,’ says he. 'And I speak as a politician, who knows how difficult it is to fool people.’
   ‘Well,’ says I, ‘my own experience is that you can fool some people all the time – and all the people sometimes. But I concede that it’s difficult to fool all the people at the same time.’

Flash For Freedom!, p.128, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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