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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

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

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811
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