“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
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“Not to know vice at all, and keep true state,
Is virtue, and not fate:
Next to that virtue is to know vice well,
And her black spite expel.”
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The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
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