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

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

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

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947
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