LITTLE WILLIE--Say, pa, what is a hypocrite?
PA--A hypocrite, my son, is a man who publicly thanks Providence for
his success, then gets mad every time anybody insinuates that he isn’t
mainly responsible for it himself.--_Tit-Bits._
(1474)
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When one proceeds after the fashion of certain processions,
that take one step back every time they take two forward, what
is there astonishing if he does not cover any appreciable
distance? But man has the silly childishness to believe that
what he does at certain hours and without the pale of that part
of his life which is known, does not count. He flatters himself
that the assets alone will figure in the final reckoning; that
what he puts openly in the balance will be weighed, but that
what he secretly withdraws will not be deducted. Like that
merchant, at once pious and crafty, who, on Sunday closed his
shop, but received his patrons through a side door, he honors
God publicly, and, in secret, betrays Him. (Text.)--CHARLES
WAGNER, “The Gospel of Life.”
(1475)
=Hypocrisy in Prayer=--See DIPLOMACY, COWARDLY.
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