"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." Mark Twain

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[–]HugodeCrevellier 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Fake-ish. Mark Twain never wrote that. The closest thing to it was:

'How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!'

Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013)