#deceive

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. ↗

— George Herbert

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. ↗

— Aristotle

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His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

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Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive. ↗