“Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.”

—  Rafael Sabatini, book Scaramouche

Book 3, Chapter 16
Source: Scaramouche

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Italian writer 1875–1950

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