deceive oneself

Example Sentences

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How easy the process, when one wishes to deceive oneself!

From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Reed, Talbot Baines

She followed her husband into German society; there she bore herself with such dignity that one could neither deceive oneself as to her attitude, nor bear a grudge against her for it.

From The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s by Bazin, Ren?

But one must not deceive oneself; that impoverishment is only apparent, and in all his work there are evidences that his passion is only veiled.

From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary

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