For salesmen's claims, these factors will be 0.1 or 10.0. Flattery is the sincerest form of lying. The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity. The qualities that most attract a woman to a man are usually the same ones she can't stand years later. That which we resist the most is what we become.
Stupidity is an almost sovereign force.
Truth is plural and contingent. Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral. The tire is only flat on the bottom. As we look back, it is infinitesimal. The information we have is not what we want.