Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves
- Elias Canetti
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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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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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We are never deceived;
we deceive ourselves
- Goethe
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires
- Goethe
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To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it
- Unknown
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Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive
- Sir Walter Scott
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The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth
asks to be deceived
- Elizabeth Jenkins
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