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.

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.

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to read more

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth

Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.

Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself