Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! [ Washington Irving ]

Men would not live long in society if they were not the dupes of each other. [ La Bruyere ]

Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use.
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! [ Cowper ]

Women are constantly the dupes, or the victims, of their extreme sensitiveness. [ Balzac ]

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. [ Colton ]

The pride of the heart is the attribute of honest men; pride of manners is that of fools; the pride of birth and rank is often the pride of dupes. [ Duclos ]

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]