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Proverb
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keep your friends close, and your enemies closer
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
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Proverb
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keep
your
friends
close
,
and
your
enemies
closer
One should be
politic
to the point of employing
duplicity
, lulling one's enemies into a false sense of
collaboration
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