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)

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 Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

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

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

To speak frankly, it strikes me as the height of puerility to wish to deceive oneself upon such subjects.

From Elinor Wyllys, Volume 1 by Cooper, Susan Fenimore