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  • Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still the less they understand, The more th'admire his sleight of hand.

    - Samuel Butler
      Hudibras, pt.2, canto 3, l.1^6.

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