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I prefer an accommodating vice
To an obstinate virtue.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I'll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I'll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope
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Hypocrisy has become a fashionable vice, and every fashionable vice passes for a virtue.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
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Born:
January 15, 1622
Died:
February 17, 1673
(aged 51)
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