He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do any thing.
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Samuel Johnson Quote
“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. Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation, and detestation the just consequence of hypocrisy.”
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