| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61387 |
| QUOTATION: | Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Leo Tolstoy (18281910), Russian novelist, philosopher. Anna Karenina, pt. 3, ch. 9 (1873-1876). |
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