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"Affected simplicity is refined imposture."
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"When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one."
"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."
"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."
"It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it."
"Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography."
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"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
"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."
"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."
"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."
"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect."
"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."
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