“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”

—  H. G. Wells

Attributed to Wells's book New Worlds for Old (1908) by Ferdinand Lundberg in Scoundrels All (1968), p. 126. The quote is widely repeated on the internet, but does not appear in the cited work.
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English writer 1866–1946

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