"Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state."
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"Few love to hear the sins they love to act."
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"Making the world safe for hypocrisy."
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"Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging."
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"Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?"
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"Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival."
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"There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground."
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"Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself."
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"The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself."
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"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds."
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"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."
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"Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods."
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"Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave."
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"For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see."
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"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."
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"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue."
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"Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue."
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"Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!"
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"Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today."
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"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."
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