"In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy."
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"With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other."
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"I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently."
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"Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop."
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"The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from."
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"God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?"
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"In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays."
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"Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart."
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"I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass."
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"One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy."
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"We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real."
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"I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field."
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"The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part."
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"Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others."
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"The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect."
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"The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent."
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"The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way."
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"It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self."
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"Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite."
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"Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy."
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