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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.
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly read more
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud
Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree
Of read more
So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud
Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree
Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.