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Moreover, men deceive themselves in respect of their own affairs, and most of all in respect of those on which they are most bent; so that either from impatience or from self-deception, they rush upon undertakings for which the time is not ripe, and so come to an ill end.
Now she calls you ... Dimitri, a hypocrite and a cunning fellow, says that you have betrayed her confidence, and predicts that you will deceive me.... 'But, Gemma, cried Sanin, 'do you mean to say you didn't tell her?... 'I told her nothing! What right had I without consulting you? Sanin threw up his arms.
"Oh, heavens!" exclaimed Morrel, "I do not deceive myself that young man who is waving his hat, that youth in the uniform of a lieutenant, is Albert de Morcerf!" "Yes," said Monte Cristo, "I recognized him."
A sudden thought brought her up sharp: she couldn't meet him to-morrow night after all for she never wanted to deceive dear father again. No, she would never sneak off like that any more. Yet it wouldn't be fair to Arthur to let him go there and wait in vain. She ought to let him know, some way. And she ought to let him know, too, that that man wasn't father, after all.
Men carry themselves about with them and find themselves everywhere, and frailty can no more be got rid of by them than can the shadow by the body that casts it. "Many deceive themselves greatly and become their own seducers by imagining that they possess those virtues, the sins contrary to which they do not commit.
Leicester, then, in order to deceive the enemy, came to Bergen-op-Zoom, with five hundred men, where he remained two days, not sleeping a wink, as he averred, during the whole time. In the night of Tuesday, 16th of July, the five hundred English soldiers were despatched by water, under charge of Lord Willoughby, "who," said the Earl, "would needs go with them."
He saw she was anxious to get away from him, and he bit his lip with vexation; her pretty, coaxing manner did not deceive him one whit, yet he clasped his arms in a very lover-like fashion around her as he replied: "Forget that it ever existed, my darling. Where there is such ardent, passionate love, there is always more or less jealousy and fear.
When he attempts the definition of a lie, however, Jeremy Taylor would seem to claim that injustice toward others and an evil motive are of its very essence, and that, if these be lacking, a lie is not a lie. As Melanchthon says, "To lie is to deceive our neighbor to his hurt." "If a lie be unjust, it can never become lawful; but if it can be separate from injustice, then it may be innocent."
But don't say a word, there's a dear, or you will get me into an awful row." "But it is so wrong to deceive your father and mother," urged Ruth, thinking that after all Gerald was not so "grown-up" as he seemed. "Do you often go out at night?" "No, very seldom." It was not true, but he was anxious to conciliate her.
Turtles of large size were found here, and, as a proof how so sagacious a man as Columbus might deceive himself, he states that he here saw three mermaids, who were very far from lovely, although they had traces of human countenances. They were undoubtedly manatees or sea-cows.
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