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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 de

by 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.