Quote by Jane Addams
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. – Jane Addams

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Americas future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. – Jane Addams

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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. – Jane Addams

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. – Jane Addams

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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. – Socrates

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The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. – William Hazlitt

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Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. – Michel de Montaigne

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Live truth instead of professing it. – Elbert Hubbard

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You know there are no secrets in America. Its quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. – W. H. Auden

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Never give advice unless asked. – Proverb

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