Bernard de Mandeville

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    Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Thus every Part was full of Vice,
    Yet the whole Mass a Paradise...
    The worst of all the Multitude
    Did something for the Common Good.
    ... ...Luxury
    Employ’d a Million of the Poor,
    And odious Pride a Million more...
    ... ...the very Poor
    Liv’d better than the Rich before...
    —Bernard De Mandeville (1670–1733)