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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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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 good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain – until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. – Jane Addams

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Hypocrisy
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We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. – Bertrand Russell

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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. – Aldous Huxley

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With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. – Charles Dickens

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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. РAndr̩ Gide

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Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. – Donald Norman

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It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man. – Elbert Hubbard

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[T]he governess… looked upon him [Mr. Swiveller] as a literary gentleman of eccentric habits, and of a most prodigious talent in quotation. – Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, 1841

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