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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Death Deceiving Fear Inordinate Might Myself Think

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Appearances are often deceiving.

~Aesop

Topics: Appearances Deceiving Often

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Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

~Algernon Sidney

Topics: Common Common Sense Concern Deceiving Eyes Interested Make Ought Own Posterity Reason See Sense Suspect Them Themselves Things Those Understanding Use Will Words

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Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

~Buchi Emecheta

Topics: Bad Being Deceiving Does Eye Feminist Hate Like Make Man Me Myself Name Nothing Said Tag Third Third World Through Western Western World Woman World Would Write Writer I Write

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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

~Camillo Di Cavour

Topics: Art Believe Deceiving Diplomats Discovered Me Never Tell Them Truth

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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Average Below Conscience Deceiving Deep Deep Down Down Ever Ourselves Out Pride Says Small Small Voice Something Still Surface Through Tune Us Voice

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Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

~David Korten

Topics: Benefits Deceiving Due Generally Growth Jobs Low Many Moreover Part-Time Pay Statistics Us

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

~Elias Canetti

Topics: Adult Also Child Children Consider Deceiving Deception Enjoy Figure Find Necessary Out Pleasure Practice Quickly Themselves Then Very

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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Agreeable Deceiving End Hope Lead Least Lives Our Our Lives Route Serve Us

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It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

~George Henry Lewes

Topics: Art Deceiving Does Effect Executed Insincere Literature Much Public Solely Succeed True View

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