"The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite."
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"Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors."
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"Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not."
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"He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!"
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"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."
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"People are very inclined to set moral standards for others."
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"For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die."
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"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."
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"The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation."
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"Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness."
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"The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end."
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"Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy."
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"The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays"
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"Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse."
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"He who knows himself is enlightened."
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"[Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself."
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"The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace."
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"Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart."
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"If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable."
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"Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom."
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