“The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.”

No. 257
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Source: Selected Essays, 1778-1830

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English writer 1778–1830

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