#frauds

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. ↗

— Gamaliel Bailey

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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much. ↗

— Orson Welles

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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Most artists think they're frauds anyway. ↗

— John Milius

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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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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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