"Your bait of falsehood takes this carp..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,With windlasses and with assays of bias,By indirections find directions out.
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“Knavery and flattery are blood relations.”
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“If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?”