"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
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"It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood."
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"It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out."
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"One may outwit another, but not all the others."
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"If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit."
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"At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded."
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"God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause."
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"He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing."
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"So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament."
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"Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit."
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"But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow."
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"You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive."
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"We are our own aptest deceiver."
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"The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends."
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"I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world."
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"I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street."
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"One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention."
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"There is no end to the deceits of the past."
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"I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is."
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"It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another."
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