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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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Go put your creed into your deed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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