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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Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. – Aldous Huxley

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

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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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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. – John Milton

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Beauty without expression is boring. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead. – Voltaire, Scribbling Books

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How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? – Jacques Plante

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You watch an old Jeopardy! and the categories alone are very plain. Poetry, or Movies, or Physics. If you watch it now, though, therell be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions. – Ken Jennings

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