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 When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as 
much difference between what he read more 
 When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as 
much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in 
himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face. 
 Be hypocritical, be cautious, be
 Not what you seem but always what you see.  
 Be hypocritical, be cautious, be
 Not what you seem but always what you see. 
Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo
Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo
 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be 
wicked and being really good all read more 
 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be 
wicked and being really good all the time. That would be 
hypocrisy. 
 He was a man
 Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
  To serve the devil read more 
 He was a man
 Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
  To serve the devil in. 
 O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
 Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?  
 O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
 Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? 
 A man I knew who lived upon a smile,
 And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair,
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 A man I knew who lived upon a smile,
 And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair,
  While rankest venom foam'd through every vein. 
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, read more
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised
 Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care
 Is to seem everything but what they are.  
 Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care
 Is to seem everything but what they are.