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Every crowd has a silver lining.
Every crowd has a silver lining.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and read more
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to
falsehood.
[Fr., On ne trompe point en read more
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to
falsehood.
[Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice
au mensonge.]
There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the
cat in the pan.
There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the
cat in the pan.
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.
