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Bernard Mandeville: No habit or...

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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. . . : but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Source: The Fable of the Bees, Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools, 1714; rev. 1723.
-- Bernard Mandeville, ( 1670?-1733), English philosopher;


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