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

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

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

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

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

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

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

—Tennessee Williams, 1953

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738
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