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

—Jean Genet, 1986

If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.

—Congolese proverb

And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.

—Lord Byron, 1822

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

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

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

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

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

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

—Bill Clinton, 1996

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817
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