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He blam'd and protested, but join'd in the plan ;
He shared in the plunder, but pitied the man.
-COWPER, Pity for poor Africans.
Further Quotes :
To beguile the time,
Look like the time; .................... .
.......... look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't.
-SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, I,5
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures .
-S.JOHNSON (Bosewell, Life for the year 1783 )
They set the sign of the cross over their outer doors, and sacrifice to their
gut and their groin in their inner closets.
-BEN JONSON, Explorata
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
-LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims, 218
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With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty ,
And with the other took a shilling out.
-ROBERT POLLOK, The Course of Time