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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.
 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. 
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
 Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
 [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.]  
 Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
 [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.] 
 Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world
 But those who slide along the grassy sod,
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 Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world
 But those who slide along the grassy sod,
  And sting the luckless foot that presses them?
   There are who in the path of social life
    Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,
     And sting the soul. 
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
 a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jackets
in the Democratic Party.  
 a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jackets
in the Democratic Party.