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

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

—John Gay, 1728

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927
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