"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
— James Thurber

January 1, 1970

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Sources

The Owl who was God", The New Yorker (29 April 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). Parody of "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.