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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

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

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.

—Congolese proverb

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

—Bill Clinton, 1996

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546
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