Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes … - Samuel Johnson

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Because our society is so polarized between homosexuals and heterosexuals, the bisexual closet has two doors.

Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

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