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Richard Cecil: Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing…

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

In today’s wordsHypocrisy is folly. It's much easier, safer, and more pleasant to be what you aim to appear than to keep up the appearance of being what you're not.

Richard CecilCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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