Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

You think you know these people but you forget the world is full of actors and the world is their stage