Don’t kid yourself, your lying tongue’s as black as the rest of them

Deceit and Self-deception

I TELL the truth. You lie like a rug. Your family specialises in falsehood and you have lied since you were a toddler. Even as a babe in arms, you were given to the odd untruth.

The latter part of that proposition, says Robert Trivers, is true. The first is not. Trivers would say that I lie all the time, too.