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1	->''"It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."''
2	-->-- '''Canada Bill Jones''', 19th century poker player
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4	->'''Dilbert:''' I'm just curious: Do you have any qualms about your business plan? Any at all?
5	->'''Dogbert:''' I'm not sure. Do qualms make you wag?
6	-->-- ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}''
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8	->''"I just don't understand it: I lie, I cheat, I steal, and I just don't get any respect."''
9	-->-- '''Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck''', ''Series/TheATeam''
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11	->I’m out to steal every last moment’s peace out of my mark, not just his coin. [[BreakTheHaughty Naught but doubts and despair shall fill the purses of my victims]].
12	-->--'''Charlatan,''' ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Career Compendium - The Ultimate Career Reference''
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14	->Now, I'm a modest man, but my piecemeal needle scam's an outright masterpiece: some slob shacked [[WrongSideOfTheTracks up here]] buys a box of syringe parts from me for twice what it's worth. He assembles 'em in his rathole, and I buy back the finished product... for a dime against the dollar that I'll get from Ryan. Profit comin', profit goin'. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ol' Andy]] rambles on about the [[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} Great Chain]]... I got people shellin' out to pull it for me!
15	-->--'''Augustus Sinclair,''' ''VideoGame/Bioshock2''
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17	->''"Are you not a Great Wizard?"''
18	->''"Hush, my dear,"'' he said. ''"Don't speak so loud, or you will be overheard--and [[ItsAllAboutMe I should be ruined]]. I'm supposed to be a Great Wizard."''
19	->''"And aren't you?"'' she asked.
20	->''"Not a bit of it, my dear; I'm just a common man."''
21	->''"You're more than that,"'' said the Scarecrow, in a grieved tone; ''"you're a humbug."''
22	->''"Exactly so!"'' declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. ''"[[TheTrickster I am a humbug.]]"''
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25	->''"I think you are a [[ConMan very bad man]],"'' said Dorothy.
26	->''"Oh, no, my dear; [[IAmWhatIAm I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.]]"''
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28	-> Even Dorothy had hope that ''"The Great and Terrible Humbug,"'' as she called him, would find a way to send her back to Kansas, and if he did [[EasilyForgiven she was willing to forgive him everything]].
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30	-> Oz, left to himself, smiled to think of his success in giving the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion [[MagicFeather exactly what they thought they wanted]]. ''"How can I help being a humbug,"'' he said, ''"[[InherentInTheSystem when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?]]"''
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33	-->--Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz
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35	->''Oh, it really doesn't matter what I do, what I do''
36	->''As long as I do it with a flair''
37	->''What effect a little smoke is with a dash of hocus-pocus''
38	->''And the scent of burning sulfur in the air''
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40	->''I'm a fraud, a hoke, a charlatan, a joke''
41	->''But they love me everywhere''
42	->''For it really doesn't matter what I do, what I do''
43	->''As long as I do it with a flair''
44	-->--"With a Flair", ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks''

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