deceive oneself
Example Sentences
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Therefore he said, venerably, that he hoped Mr. Roberts realized that it was possible to deceive oneself in such matters.
From The Voice by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Even from the restaurants it seemed to vanish for a time, and some of them are still doing their best to help one to deceive oneself with a curl of what is called butter substitute.
From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
All the rest is either to deceive oneself or to wish to deceive others; and to wish to deceive others in order to deceive oneself.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
Would it not be a most miserable success to be able to deceive oneself, or others, as to whether one is or is not within the covenant of salvation?
From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
And the young man— At this distance it was easy to deceive oneself, but did not that face bring something back?
From Born in Exile by George Gissing
