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Now when a man has been deceived in having supposed himself to

excite the sentiment of Friendship by reason of his moral

character, the other party doing nothing to indicate he has but

himself to blame: but when he has been deceived by the pretence

of the other he has a right to find fault with the man who has so

deceived him, aye even more than with utterers of false coin, in

proportion to the greater preciousness of that which is the

object-matter of the villany.