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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—Bill Clinton, 1996

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

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

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

—Congolese proverb

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

—John Gay, 1728

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

—Maxim Gorky, 1902
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