Reply #86: So, if an author wrote a story that started out saying,

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"Ever since George Washington chopped down a cherry tree and told his father he did it because he could not tell a lie, Americans have been a people with a greater sense of honest than others," it would be beyond the pale for me to point out that, 1) the cherry tree/can't tell a lie story is a myth, and, 2) even were it true, Americans are no more honest than anybody else. Do I have that right?