"Cheat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so subtle and combative as Napoleon's was, of course, strained to the utmost to break or cheat the British blockades, and the story of the one crafty ruse after another which he employed to beguile the British leaders is very remarkable. Even more remarkable, perhaps, is the manner in which these plain-minded, business-like British seamen, for whose mental powers Napoleon cherished the ...
— Deeds that Won the Empire - Historic Battle Scenes • W. H. Fitchett
... been so unhappy since you told me he was dead —and I felt like a cheat. You see, he promised to marry me, and I know now that he loved me, that he really wanted to marry me, but something happened to make me believe he wasn't going to, I saw—another girl who'd got into trouble, and then I thought he'd only been playing with ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... doing now? Some sort of mischief you're at, I'll be bound—you lads are always up to it. Who are you ducking? If it's that cheat Wrangecoke, I'll not meddle, only don't—What, Mother Haldane! Shame on you! Colgrim, Walding, Oselach, Amfrid!—shame on you! What, you, Erenbald, that she healed of that bad leg that laid you up for three months! And you, Baderun, whose child she brought back well-nigh from the grave ...
— One Snowy Night - Long ago at Oxford • Emily Sarah Holt
... man can say, "I will not do this or that, I will not lie, I will not play the rogue, I will not cheat, I will not scheme." For this is in our power, and is no small but great help to ease of ...
— Plutarch's Morals • Plutarch
... or faculty of willing is undoubtedly a degree of being, and of good, or perfection; but good-will, benevolence, or desire of good, is another degree of superior good. For one may misuse will in order to wish ill, cheat, hurt, or do injustice; whereas good- will is the good or right use of will itself, which cannot but be good. Good-will is therefore what is most precious in man. It is that which sets a value upon all the ...
— The Existence of God • Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon
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