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"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy."
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"Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments."
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"No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins."
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"He who acquired all his wealth by 'being at the right place at the right time' is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his 'being at the wrong place at the wrong time.'"
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"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."
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"Foras Road has a sordid reputation. Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution."
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"They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally."
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"Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm."
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"Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal."
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"You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too."
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"I might be tempted to make to Christendom a proposal different from that of the Bible society. Let us collect all the New Testaments we have, let us bring them out to an open square or up to the summit of a mountain, and while we all kneel let one man speak to God thus: 'Take this book back again; we men, such as we now are, are not fit to go in for this sort of thing, it only makes us unhappy,' This is my proposal, that like those inhabitants in Gerasa we beseech Christ to depart from our borders. This would be an honest and human way of talking -- rather different from the disgusting hypocritical priestly fudge..."
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"The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant."
Heart
"Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite."
Soul
"Neutral men are the devil's allies."
Men
"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle."
Poetry
"At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion."
Men
"The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool."
Heart
"Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order."
Darkness
"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy."
Hypocrisy
"Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical."
Hurt
"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions."
Life
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