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Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

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

—Jean Genet, 1986

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

—Congolese proverb

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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

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

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

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

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

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

—Bill Clinton, 1996
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