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Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth
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.
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
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.
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
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.
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.