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Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the
fox's.
Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the
fox's.
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the read more
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people
all of the time.
Which I wish to remark--
And my language is plain,--
That for ways that are dark
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Which I wish to remark--
And my language is plain,--
That for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain,
The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice.
But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
