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  2. The Happy Hypocrite - Wikipedia

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    His earliest short story, "The Happy Hypocrite" first appeared in Volume XI of The Yellow Book in October, 1896. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more humorous version of Oscar Wilde's 1890 classic tale of moral degeneration, The Picture of Dorian Gray. [1] The Happy Hypocrite tells the story of a man who deceives a woman with a mask in order to ...

  3. Hypocrisy - Wikipedia

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    Hypocrisy is the practice of feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not. [1] The word "hypocrisy" entered the English language c. 1200 with the meaning "the sin of pretending to virtue or goodness". [2] Today, "hypocrisy" often refers to advocating behaviors that one does not practice.

  4. Woes of the Pharisees - Wikipedia

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    The woes are all woes of hypocrisy and illustrate the differences between inner and outer moral states. [1] Jesus portrays the Pharisees as impatient with outward, ritual observance of minutiae which made them look acceptable and virtuous outwardly but left the inner person unreformed.

  5. Lesson of the widow's mite - Wikipedia

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    A bronze mite, also known as a Lepton (meaning small), minted by Alexander Jannaeus, King of Judaea, 103–76 BC and still in circulation at the time of Jesus [1]. The lesson of the widow's mite or the widow's offering is presented in two of the Synoptic Gospels (Mark 12:41–44 and Luke 21:1–4), when Jesus is teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem.

  6. The pot calling the kettle black - Wikipedia

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    It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection, [1] or hypocrisy. [2] Use of the expression to discredit or deflect a claim of wrongdoing by attacking the originator of the claim for their own similar behaviour (rather than acknowledging ...

  7. Matthew 6:16 - Wikipedia

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    The hypocrite destroys his face, in order that he may feign sorrow, and with a heart full of joy wears sorrow in his countenance. [ 2 ] Gregory the Great : For by the pale countenance, the trembling limbs, and the bursting sighs, and by all so great toil and trouble, nothing is in the mind but the esteem of men.

  8. Slink away in a puddle of hypocrisy? I realize that asking for rational thought from our state or national political scene is a bridge too far these days. But Coleman, U.S. Rep. Andy Barr and ...

  9. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Wikipedia

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    The story centers on Maggie, a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by poverty and solitude. The work was considered risqué by publishers because of its literary realism and strong themes. Crane – who was 22 years old at the time – financed the book's publication himself, although the original 1893 edition ...