quotes about Dupes
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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.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
-- Bill Vaughan -
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.
-- Clarence Day -
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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.
-- Dawn PowellSource : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
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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.
-- Diane de Poitiers -
Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
-- Honore de Balzac -
A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
-- Honore de Balzac -
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep ...
-- Jane Addams -
The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
-- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi -
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One dupe is as impossible as one twin.
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.121
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Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.
-- Kate ChopinSource : The Awakening ch. 38 (1899)
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
Every man is his own greatest dupe.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
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We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.
-- Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres