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Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only

Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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