A.) “People willingly believe what they want to believe.”
- Julius Caesar, The Gallic War
B.) "There's a sucker born every minute."
- attrib. P.T. Barnum
C.) "The customer's always right."
- American saying
D.) "The fool sees not the same tree that he wise man sees."
- Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
E.) "A word, to the wise, is sufficient."
- trad. saying; attribution unknown
E.) ". . . silence, cunning, and exile."
- Joyce, Portait of the Artist
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