Fifthly, you ought not to endeavour to amuse and deceive your adversary, by pretending to have made bad moves, and saying, that you have now lost the game, in order to make him secure and careless, and inattentive to your schemes: for this is fraud and deceit, not skill in the game.
Franklin warns against deceptive tactics in games, advocating for honesty over trickery.
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Yet had I gone at 70, it would have cut off 12 of the most active years of my life, employed too in matters of the greatest importance; but whether I have been doing good or mischief, is for time to discover.
As it is in my power, as far as my testimony will be regarded, to refute this charge, I think it due to our friendship to do it.
But if I were in his place, and not otherwise instructed, I should be apt to say, Take your own time, gentlemen.
It is comfortable to have a good opinion of one's self, and of every thing that belongs to us, to think one's own religion, king, and wife, the best of all possible wives, kings, and religions.
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