We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincer

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. – G. K. Chesterton

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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. – W. Somerset Maugham

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At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. – Theodore M. Hesburgh

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Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. – Abraham Lincoln

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