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Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. – Rebecca West, The Strange Necessity, 1928

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At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. – Georg Groddeck, The Book of the It, 1950

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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. – J. Pierpoint Morgan

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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. – Leo Tolstoy

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