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I'm wondering whether list members can help me identify the source of a
quotation that has been attributed to Pound:

"The technique of infamy is to invent two lies, and get people arguing
heatedly over which one of them is true."

I've done thorough Lexis-Nexis, Google, and Bartlett's Quotations searches
and have come up blank. Does this jog anybody's memory? I'm suspecting that
the line is a paraphrase, though the individual who used it kept it in
quotation marks. Thanks in advance for your help.

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