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Deceiving Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
- Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie…
- Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which…
- Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are…
- It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
- I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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