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"Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors."
"Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge."
"Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies."
"It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth - but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."
"The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap."
Explore more quotes by Adelbert von Chamisso
"The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter."
"My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak."
"When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation."
"On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom."
"A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan."
"This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it."
"In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes."
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