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A sheep in sheep's clothing.
A sheep in sheep's clothing.
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
