"Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a..." - Quote by Victor Hugo
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
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“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!”
“Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.”
“He does not weep who does not see.”
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“The american dream wasn't meant for me, cause lady liberty's a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom,education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold.”
“I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.”
“No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.”
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“Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.”
“I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope”
“These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be the severest possible satire on the acts and words that do. It is the best news that America has ever heard.... How many a man who was lately contemplating suicide has now something to live for!”