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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Congolese proverb

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

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.

—John Gay, 1728

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

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

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991
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