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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do. ↗

— Buddha Gotama

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Don't worry about it, Mikey," Dee said comfortingly. "You'll probably be next, so you won't be here when our Great Deception comes crashing down. ↗

— L.J. Smith

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People’s feelings are easily swayed. The things reflected in people’s eyes are full of deception. Nothing is as it appears. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

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Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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Appearances can be deceptive" he says quietly. "I'm anything but fine. I feel like the sun has set and not risen for five days, Ana. I'm in perpetual night here. ↗

— E.L. James

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that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

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names are a way to keep people in your mind ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. ↗

— Charles Fort

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What else exhausts like sustained deception? ↗

— Leif Enger

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