Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
“If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.”
“A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.”