We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels. — Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres Copy Share Image
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
[My father] had this quirky thing of not believing in gravity. And giving me a constant headache about that one. He would… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I did not go to the Supreme Court on behalf of a class of women. I wasn't pursuing any legal remedy to… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
![“[My father] had this quirky thing of not believing in gravity. And giving me a constant headache about that one. He would say if I showed any interest in gravity, I was becoming a dupe of the system. He could see indications I was beginning to believe in it.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/paul-laffoley-7077_becoming_my-father-had-this-quirky-thing-of-not-b_2179081.jpg)
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