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Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.

—Jean Genet, 1986

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

—Tennessee Williams, 1953

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

—Maxim Gorky, 1902
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