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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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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. – John Milton

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