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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Anywhere)
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So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud
Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree
Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 643)
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Some cursed fraud
Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,
And me with thee hath ruined.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 904)
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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 1)
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But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia at II, vii)
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Author: Otto von Bismarck
Source: None
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A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
Author: Jonathan Gash
Source: None
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There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
Author: Gaelic Proverb
Source: None
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It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: None
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Author: Salman Rushdie
Source: None
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Author: Pearl Bailey
Source: None
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All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
Author: Richard Whately
Source: None
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
Author: Gamaliel Bailey
Source: None
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It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: None
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For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
Author: Charles Simmons
Source: None
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Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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