"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow."
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Source: Socrate Chrétien as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 911-917), 1922.
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