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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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One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, whats more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. – Aldous Huxley

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Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. – Aldous Huxley

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Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. – Aldous Huxley

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Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. – W. Somerset Maugham

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We are not hypocrites in our sleep. – William Hazlitt

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Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. – Michel de Montaigne

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