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  • Hypocrite lecteur,mon semblable,mon fre'  re! Hypocrite readermy fellow manmy brother! See Eliot 306:55.

    - Charles Baudelaire
      Les Fleurs du mal,'Au lecteur'.

  • Patriotism is seen not onlyas the last refuge of the scoundrel but as the first bolt-hole of the hypocrite. See Johnson 444:8.

    - Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg
      Speak For England, introduction.

  • 'You! hypocrite lecteur!monsemblable,monfre'  re!' See Baudelaire 64:53.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
     The Waste Land, pt.1,'The Burial of the Dead'.

  • No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark,  Jun. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

  • The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

    -TennesseeThomas Lanier Williams
      Rosa.The RoseTattoo, act 3.

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