"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."

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"Confronting a liar makes a better liar."

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

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"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

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"A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue,Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do."

Joyce Rachelle, Filipino Author

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"Affected simplicity is refined imposture."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Deception, Simplicity, Appearance, Truth

"People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Deception, Trust, Truth, Awareness

"I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them."

Charles Van Doren, American Celebrity

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"I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad."

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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

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"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear."

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"TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom whenit brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here."

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"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

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"Confronting a liar makes a better liar."

"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."

"We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces."

"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."

"A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind."

"But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue,Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do."

"Affected simplicity is refined imposture."

"People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you."

"I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them."

"I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye."

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"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear."

"TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom whenit brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here."

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"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

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