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Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

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

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

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

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Lord Byron, 1822

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546
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