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~ Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind. ~

Joseph Addison

~ Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! ~

Lord Byron

~ A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself, too, if he could. ~

William Hazlitt

~ As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. ~

William Hazlitt

~ He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves. ~

William Hazlitt

~ Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness. ~

Victor Hugo

~ The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite. ~

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

~ Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy. ~

Jeremy Taylor

~ Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are The plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. ~

William Blake

~ He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particles. ~

William Blake

~ Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered. ~

Thomas Paine

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