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“Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 218.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 59af345046940555563f8ef2d6b933cb8aade3e25590927f0decaac09b9a8cea
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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