Quote by Bernard Mandeville
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor an

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. – Bernard Mandeville

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If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters? – Bernard Mandeville

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That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience”

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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Live truth instead of professing it. – Elbert Hubbard

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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy. – Fredrich

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