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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. - Eliz

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. – Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker, 1987 February 16th

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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. – Leo Tolstoy

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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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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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That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience”

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