"How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself."
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"With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself."
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"I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy."
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"I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!"
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"Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman."
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"False friends leave you in times of trouble."
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"To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit."
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"Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together."
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"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"
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"Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste."
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"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."
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"If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?"
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"On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea."
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"Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice."
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"Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy."
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"One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed."
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"The intention makes the crime."
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"To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy."
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"There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy."
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"No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures."
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