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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan.

Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.

A sheep in sheep's clothing.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice.

We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!"

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.