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Card #c338IR // #c338Verbatim excerpt
Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes - never!

— Source: The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)

[Use when]

Use when someone is performing sincerity and you need a cut-through line.

[Why it matters]

Deception has a medium limit: performance fails at the involuntary — read the leak, not the script.

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