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"Affected simplicity is refined imposture."
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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."
"A surfeit of information often hides an untruth, he said, with annoying clarity."
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"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."
"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves."
"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."
"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."
"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."
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