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Fraud Quotes - Page 2

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

Sir Edward Coke (1777). “The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law”

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.394, Anchor

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.431, e-artnow

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

'Under the Willows' (1869) l. 21

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.287