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You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. Quoted in "Abe" Lincoln's Yarns and Stories, p. 184, Alexander McClure (1904).

The famous aphorism has also been attributed to the showman Phineas T. Barnum.

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