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fake people Quotes

Five of the best book quotes about fake people
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Most people considered Lenehan a leech but, in spite of this reputation, his adroitness and eloquence had always prevented his friends from forming any general policy against him.
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I mean he may have been so full of his appearance as Robert that he had almost got to believe in Robert, and had to tell everybody.
Source: Chapter 22, Line 59
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Your history is quite a romance, and the world, which delights in romances in yellow covers, strangely mistrusts those which are bound in living parchment, even though they be gilded like yourself.
Source: Chapter 56, Paragraph 31
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“There go two miscreants;” said he, “it is a pity they are not really related!”
Source: Chapter 56, Paragraph 181
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There were three ladies in the room and one gentleman. Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.
Source: Chapter 11, Paragraph 6
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