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"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy."
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"Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging."

"We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others, while we act as evils."

"It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension."

"Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts."

"[Or perhaps my friends should have realized that they shouldn't have left behind the FRICKING REASON FOR THEIR PROTEST!And that thought just cracked me up.]It was like my friends had walked over the backs of baby seals in order to get to the beach where they could protest against the slaughter of baby seals."

"This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people-because, surely, Wally was nice-would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer-and harder, if not impossible, to conceal."

"Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone."

"Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate."

"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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"Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite."

"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."

"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle."

"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."

"Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."

"Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical."

"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions."
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