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The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

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None are so easily taken in as the "knowing ones."

Forewarned, forearmed, is sheer nonsense.

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

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As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not."

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