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Every man is his own greatest dupe.
One dupe is as impossible as one twin.
We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.
Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.
There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.
