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pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them
- All you then have to do is to keep out of his mind the question "If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?"Chapter 2 (86% in)
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