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How do you know if someone is dishonest? If, when you ask him if he’s honest, he answers “yes”. There is a certain moral rightness about this proverb, or truism, or joke, which seems both instinctive and borne out in experience.
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Wylie, A. (2023). “Here Lies a Civil Servant”: C.H. Sisson and the Possibility of Honesty. In: Moul, V., Talbot, J. (eds) C. H. Sisson Reconsidered . The New Antiquity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14828-6_10
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