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The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assum...

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Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that dece...

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T. H. WhiteThe Once and Future King

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent...

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We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're...

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I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.In one word he told me secret of succes...

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The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us...

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The child watched its disappearance--he was astounded but dreamy. His stupefaction was complicated b...

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This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, th...

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...

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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...

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He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Wome...

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The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.

And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young...

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And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young...

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And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young...

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And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young...

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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocris...

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the st...

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...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in news...

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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers...

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I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...

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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that...

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There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pou...

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Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were...

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And families now, families who have been separated throughout the year, assemble once more together....

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Agatha ChristieHercule Poirot's Christmas

For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance o...

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I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever tru...

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The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mex...

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We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, a...

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All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't...

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If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, a...

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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was t...

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I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was high...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compa...

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As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Wh...

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Both Yassi and I know that we have been losing our faith. We have been questioning it with every mov...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

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It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

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It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

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It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

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It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

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It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

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It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

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It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

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What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I h...

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The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. To...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for thei...

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The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece ofspecious humbug designed to conceal i...

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On the appointed day -- I think it was the next day, but no matter -- Traddles and I repaired to the...

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There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion,...

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Now, to be sure, Mrs Varden thought, here is a perfect character. Here is a meek, righteous, thoroug...

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculati...

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Patty: I'll be the good guy.Shermy: I'll be the bad guy.Patty: What are you going to be, Charlie Bro...

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Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and ey...

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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...

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Mama had greeted him the traditional way that women were supposed to, bending low and offering him h...

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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate...

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The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a quest...

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I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same ti...

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Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their ...

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If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six tim...

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Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard pe...

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In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

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Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I di...

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[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...

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Mr. Pembroke, watching his broad back, desired to bury a knife in it. The desire passed, partly beca...

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Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these k...

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Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, tha...

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Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I

Remember this: If you work for a man in Heaven's name work for him. If he pays you wages which sup...

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Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider o...

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By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. ...

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Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal b...

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He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

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François de La RochefoucauldReflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slav...

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Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever...

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They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time negle...

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Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit...

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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament th...

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The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad...

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Yet what moved Our Blessed Lord to invective was not badness but just such self-righteousness as thi...

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Fulton J. SheenPeace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclama...

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Gautama BuddhaThe Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

But I cant stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. Whats the use in such hypocris...

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George Bernard ShawMrs. Warren's Profession

CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tel...

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