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• Oh, what tangled webs we weave When we first practice to deceive. -- Sir Walter Scott, Marmio
• Oh, what tangled webs we weave.
• When we first practice to deceive. -- Sir Walter Sco
• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self, for what we wish, that we readily believe.
  -- Demosthene...
• Homer: _That's_ what ballet is? [whining] Oh -- Marge
  You promised! You can't back out like when you volunteered for that Army experiment to avoid dinner at my sisters'....
• T]he earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth.
  This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family....
• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. -- Horace Ma
• When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model
  And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection....
• We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)