Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the…

Samuel Johnson
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. ✨ Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). Life and Writings, p.145
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. ✨ Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). Life and Writings, p.145

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