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Quotation by Bernard Mandeville
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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733), Dutch-born British author, physician. "An Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools," The Fable of the Bees (1714, revised 1723).
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