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Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. – J. Petit-Senn

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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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Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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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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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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