Social intercourse, with its … hypocrisy … is highly produc… - Ernest Dimnet

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Social intercourse, with its … hypocrisy … is highly productive of thought-hindering insincerity.

Ernest Dimnet

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Ernest Dimnet (1866–1954) was a French priest, writer and lecturer, and author of "The Art of Thinking", a popular book on thinking and reasoning during the 1930s.

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Social intercourse, with its … hypocrisy … is highly productive of thought-hindering insincerity. - Ernest Dimnet

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