deceive quotes

Music was invented to deceive and delude mankind.

-Ephorus of Cum×
History, preface.

   C'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur. It's doubly sweet to deceive the deceiver.

-La Fontaine,Jean de
  Fables, pt.2, no.15,'Le coq et le renard'.

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Marmion, canto 6, stanza17.

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