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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

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

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

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

—Bill Clinton, 1996

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

—Tennessee Williams, 1953

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

—Jean Genet, 1986

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

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
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