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• What we wish, that we readily believe. -- Demosthene
• Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself. DEMOSTHENES
• What ardently we wish we soon believe. -- Young
• Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
  -- Demosthene...
• Oh, what tangled webs we weave When we first practice to deceive. -- Sir Walter Scott, Marmio
• Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. -- Shakespeare
• Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. MONTAIGNE
• If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished
  but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are....