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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

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

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.

—Jean Genet, 1986
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