#deceive

I love that she loves me a 10, on a 5-point scale. Well, I know it’s a 5-point scale, though I asked her on a 1-100 scale.

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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. ↗

— Voltaire

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With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. ↗

— Simone Weil

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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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