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I'm not conning you, Dick — you'd go for Japan.
"When James Patterson and Douglas Preston and Richard Russo and Scott Turow tell you they're trying to protect your interests, they're conning you.
"Killing Season," a mano-a-mano action thriller as subtle as its title, is so pretentious that you may wonder, at least briefly, if its antiwar metaphors are conning you while the film is purposefully wallowing in bathos.
It's not a question of whether one person is conning you into thinking you can do it, saying, 'Oh, it was beautiful.' On stage, if it works, it works".
Anyone who says otherwise must be conning you".
They make a living conning you out of your money by offering you the lure of outsized returns without meaningful risk.
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"But I hope you know I'm not going to con you".
3) It's a deliberate attempt to con you and cheat the opposition - but your hands are tied.
While he lacked initiative, his intent wasn't dishonorable; he was not trying to con you into a second job.
You are left wondering whether somebody is trying to con you, or to obfuscate and blather so that you can't tell what's being talked about.
If you suspect the man was trying to con you out of a few dollars because you represent an easy mark, give him nothing.
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