"If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars." — Arthur Hugh Clough

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• Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its… — William Beveridge
• We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool… — Giacomo Casanova
• When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of… — Ambrose Bierce
• Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. — Thomas Carlyle
• The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes… — Elbridge Gerry
• I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at… — Alexander Hamilton
• Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led… — Thomas Jefferson
• War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game. — Thomas Paine
• The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out… — John Calvin
• Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's… — Wesley Morris

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