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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks read more
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the read more
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they read more
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
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.
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.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
[Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
[Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.
[Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.]
We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.
[Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.]
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
[Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
[Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]
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.
