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

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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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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. РJean Baptiste Moli̬re, Tartuffe

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