87.Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aim Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."2 TIM. iii. 13.]
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