"The lure of the distant and the difficult……" — John Burroughs

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• Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• When the enemy's envoy's speak in humble terms, but continues his preparations, he will advance. When their language is deceptive… — Sun Tzu
• Appearances are deceptive. — Aesop
• You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody… — P.J. O'Rourke
• Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a… — Alfred Binet
• Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the… — Dorothy L. Sayers
• The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in… — Simone de Beauvoir
• As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
• A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to… — Julie B. Beck
• Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive. — Heraclitus
• An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always… — Pierre Corneille

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