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"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."
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"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."
"Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
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"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."
"Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths."
"When you focus on miracles you will be manipulated."
"Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors."
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