For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud
Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree
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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.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself

But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love read more

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.

It is fraud to conceal fraud

It is fraud to conceal fraud

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised read more

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.