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| Deception Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought. | Bacon | Francis |
| 2 | I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. | Johnson | Samuel |
| 3 | It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality. | Sagan | Francoise |
| 4 | You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. | Lincoln | Abraham |
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