“Son, son, I admire your sincerity. Always be sincere - whether you mean it or not.”
Michael Flanders (1922–1975) English writer and performer
The Reluctant Cannibal
“Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.”
Attributed without citation in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1992) by Angela Partington, disputed in The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 224, as something Truman is not known to have said, nor was likely to have said.
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