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

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Socialism
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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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Future
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Other Quotes from
Hypocrisy
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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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Hypocrisy

When you say that you agree to 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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Hypocrisy

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

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Hypocrisy

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

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Hypocrisy

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Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands — and the rest of the year on the financial rocks. – Sam Ewing

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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. – Albert Camus

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