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• Deceive boys with toys, but men with oaths.
• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self, for what we wish, that we readily believe.
  -- Demosthene...
• The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
  -- Daniel Webste...
• It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 322
• One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 463
• What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising?
  Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public...
• Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865...
• About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.