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There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Bill Clinton, 1996

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

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

—Lord Byron, 1822

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

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

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946
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