Manners are the hypocrisy of nations, and hypocrisy is more or less perfect. - Honoré de Balzac (The Physiology of Marriage Quotes)

Manners are the hypocrisy of nations, and hypocrisy is more or less perfect.[Les mœurs sont l’hypocrisie des nations; l’hypocrisie est plus ou moins perfectionnée.]

Source:(Dana Estes & Co., ed. 1901), Part I. A General Consideration, Meditation IV. Of the Virtuous Woman, Aphorism XVI, Page 43
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