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

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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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