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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. – J. Pierpoint Morgan

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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

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We are not hypocrites in our sleep. – 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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A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. – Thomas Macaulay

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