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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
He seemed
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow.
He seemed
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow.
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us read more
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
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.
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein
men find pleasure to be deceived.
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein
men find pleasure to be deceived.
One may outwit another, but not all the others.
[Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non read more
One may outwit another, but not all the others.
[Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas plus fin
que tous les autres.]
