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

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.

—Lord Byron, 1822

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

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

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

—John Gay, 1728

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Bill Clinton, 1996

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

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

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875
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