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Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.
Lord David Cecil
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Lord David Cecil
Age: 83 †
Born: 1902
Born: April 9
Died: 1986
Died: January 1
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Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil
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