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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.
Sep 17, 2025
We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.
To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.
Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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