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

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

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"And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."

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