What are you looking at? You've never seen a hypocrite before?
'Twas never merry world
Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment.
"Courtesy of tongue," said Rowena, "when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown."
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
The devil lurks behind the cross.
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