I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Source: Rasselas, in The History of Rasselas, ch. 46 (1759).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.