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As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

— Giacomo Casanova

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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.

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