deceive oneself

Example Sentences

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But there are times when it is almost as difficult to deceive oneself as to cheat others.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Maybe considerations of this sort weakened his power of resistance, but it was still necessary not to deceive oneself and to see everything as clearly as it could be seen at that moment.

From The Trial by Wyllie, David

For it is only too easy to deceive oneself in thinking that one has come upon some sound particular in a tainted whole.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

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 Gissing, George

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 Lynd, Robert