The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
“I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.”
“I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.”