"General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer."
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"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."
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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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"A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country."
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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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"More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him."
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"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised."
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"Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue."
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"I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me."
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"He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars."
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"Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today."
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"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."
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"There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites."
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"The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor."
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"Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity."
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"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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"A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain."
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"Dad was a hypocrite. He could talk about peace and love to the world but he could never show it to his wife and son."
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