The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else.

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Source: George Bernard Shaw, Quintessence Of Ibsenism (1891; 1913)’ The Two Pioneers.

Complete Quote: Just as the liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else - George Bernard Shaw

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