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The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don__ deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they__e going to go home one night and have the girl they__e loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something__ too good to be true, that__ because it__ a con.
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The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don__ deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they__e going to go home one night and have the girl they__e loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something__ too good to be true, that__ because it__ a con.

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