Give the least truth that’s necessary in order to get the most trust. It is the typical story of the vintner who initially gives you the good wine and then, once you have got drunk, he gives you gallons of bad wine.
The manipulator is generally indifferent to truth, even more so as a widely accepted fact. Should he just find himself face to face with truth, he dismisses it by treating it as something merely personal and arbitrary.
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