#deceived

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Who would not rather trust and be deceived? ↗

— Eliza Cook

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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation. ↗

— Plato

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In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

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

— Amit Abraham

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Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth. ↗

— Amit Abraham

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The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived. ↗

— Ken Lucas

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