#deceive

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Love is beautiful, A beautiful deception. One falls in it To deceive the other ↗

— Amit Abraham

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An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Lease

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But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly. ↗

— Clare Short

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