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So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud
Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree
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So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud
Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree
Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, read more
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised read more
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in read more
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.