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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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"What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid, they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress-lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!"
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"We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others, while we act as evils."
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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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"All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say."
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"Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on."
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"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."
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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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"Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy."
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"Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force."
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"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Love
"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
Philosophy
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
Advice
"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
Philosophy
"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
Desire
"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
Philosophy
"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
Ability
"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
Philosophy
"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."
Philosophy
"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do."
Love
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