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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many. ↗

— Phaedrus

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The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. ↗

— Johann G. Seume

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And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know. ↗

— Clare Short

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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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