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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. – Aldous Huxley

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Modern mans besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions. – Aldous Huxley

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. – Aldous Huxley

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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. – Aldous Huxley

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A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. – Thomas Macaulay

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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

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And why do you look at the speck that is in your brothers eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Matthew 7:3 – Bible

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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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