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Deception Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
- Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
- Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
- 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.
- We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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