Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves."
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Dupes
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes."
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"That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared."
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"Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes."
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"True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit."
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