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It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
 And the veil
 Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,
  TO hid the feeling heart?  
 And the veil
 Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,
  TO hid the feeling heart? 
 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. 
 Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their 
heads, were like the little images that they place read more 
 Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their 
heads, were like the little images that they place in the very 
bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up 
the church, but are but puppets. 
 Let me be cruel, not unnatural;
 I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
  My tongue read more 
 Let me be cruel, not unnatural;
 I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
  My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites:
   How in my words somever she be shent,
    To give them seals never, my soul, consent! 
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
 How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how 
horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant read more 
 How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how 
horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.
   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), 
Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo
Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.