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“This done, I commented to Jaco that he had just lied four times in less than two hours... Jaco reflected for a moment and had to accept the accuracy of my observation, but excused himself by saying that absolute truthfulness was incompatible with any advanced society, and that the peacefulness of our cities could only be maintained at the expense of reciprocal deceit.”