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• Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

  Jim Butcher

  Lying, Love You, Greatness

  Jim Butcher (2005). “Furies of Calderon”, p.332, Penguin

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• One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Hypocrisy, Deception

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

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• I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, May, Next

  Abraham Lincoln, Roy Prentice Basler (1953). “Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”

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• The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

  Wilhelm II

  Weakness, Function, Treacherous

  "Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bart., First Lord Carnock: A Study in the Old Diplomacy". Book by Harold Nicolson, p. 214, 1930.

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• May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  Mean, Army, Hype

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• A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

  Marie Howe

  Crime, Retribution, Traitor

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• Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cheating, Design, Weakness

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• Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Hatred, Deceit, Spirit

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.51

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• What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

  George Orwell

  Stupidity, Instinct, Cowardice

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Power, Men, Atheism

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• Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Men, Self

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• Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden

  R. A. Salvatore

  Powerful, People, Gains

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Homeland: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.12, Wizards of the Coast

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• How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Slides, Easy

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.595, Anchor

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• It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

  Demosthenes

  Character, Injustice, Found

  Demosthenes (1756). “All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...”, p.26

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• I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable. Darkness and shattering despair that could break bones. Paranoia and horror that could stop the heart cold. All inflicted on one's self by one's self. The soul turns schizophrenic and goes hopelessly insane.

  Henry Rollins

  Lying, Heart, Self

  Henry Rollins (1992). “Art to choke hearts ; & Pissing in the gene pool: collected writing 1985-1987”, 2 13 61

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• Murphy nodded, frowning at the road ahead of her. "The reason treachery is so reveiled," she said in a careful tone of voice, "is because it usually comes from someone you didn't think could possibly do such a thing.

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Voice, Frowning

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• Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Honorable Man, Whole Life

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• There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Knows, Statesmanship

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman and the Mountain of Light”, p.195, Penguin

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• Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

  Mark Twain

  Gratitude, Two, Gone

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.482, Courier Corporation

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• If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

  Gena Showalter

  Looks, Human Nature, Disloyalty

  Gena Showalter (2010). “Intertwined”, p.180, Harlequin

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• There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.

  Tim O'Brien

  Years, Next Year, Tomorrow

  Tim O'Brien (2006). “In the Lake of the Woods”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

  Virginia Woolf

  World, Commit

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.297, Wordsworth Editions

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• Some friendship is closely akin to treachery.

  Robert N. Lee

  Friendship, Friends

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• there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

  Charles Bukowski

  Hate, War, Army

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.148, Canongate Books

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• There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Tongue, Two Towers

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