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Deceit Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
- Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great
- None are deceived but they that confide.
- The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.
- Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler,…
- Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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