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You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

—Bill Clinton, 1996

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

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

—Tennessee Williams, 1953

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

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

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

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

—John Gay, 1728

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC
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