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"The webs we weave when we learn to deceive"

• aaronem 13y ago
  I've heard a few versions of that chestnut, but the only one which both rhymes and scans is this: 'Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.'
  • thotpoizn 13y ago
    ... "But when we've practiced quite a while How vastly we improve our style!" ( - J. R. Pope, A Word of Encouragement. Collected in The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, 1978.)
  • loceng 13y ago
    The important followup behaviour to this is whether people continue to deceive.