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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

— Giacomo Casanova Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

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Woman is like a book, which, good or bad, must at first please us by the frontispiece.

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Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.]

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised[.]

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