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Once rank mattered, being and seeming split apart, and pomp, deceit and their vices followed

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  1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher and writer (1712 to 1778)
    It was requisite for men to be thought what they really were not. To be and to appear became two very different things, and from this distinction sprang pomp and knavery, and all the vices which form their train.

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    ↗A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (1755; Harvard Classics translation)gutenberg.org

    c. 1754–1755

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