Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
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Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
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It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Revelation 12:9:
The great dragon was hurled down – that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
(NIV)
And the huge dragon was cast down and out--that age-old serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, he who is the seducer (deceiver) of all humanity the world over; he was forced out and down to the earth, and his angels were flung out along with him. [Gen. 3:1, 14, 15; Zech. 3:1.](AMP)
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
(KJV)
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
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