Quote by J. Petit-Senn
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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That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience”

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Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. – Laurence Sterne, 1760

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And why do you look at the speck that is in your brothers eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Matthew 7:3 – Bible

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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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