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— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles"The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them."
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No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.
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Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
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