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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The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven. – Proverb

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Few love to hear the sins they love to act. – William Shakespeare

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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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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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