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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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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays, 1841

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Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck

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We are not hypocrites in our sleep. – William Hazlitt

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