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Jiang endorses the class reading that Virgil treats his historical timing as a mask that lets him avoid admitting moral failure.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Because it's basically his mask or excuse of not making it to heaven. He's like, oh, they kind of excluded me because I was..."
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The student's starting definition of hypocrisy is that it means saying one thing and doing another while presenting a false image of moral superiority.
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"Because it's basically his mask or excuse of not making it to heaven. He's like, oh, they kind of excluded me because I was..."
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"Exactly. So he's constantly excusing himself, right? He'd rather, again, burn in hell than just to admit he's wrong. Riffius is interesting because who..."
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"...to be better than you are. So you put off this mask."
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"...youth of my leg and he although you had a hundred masks upon your face that still would not conceal from me the thoughts..."
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"...saw that my guide was driven back made him more quickly mask his own new power."
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"...about uh you know the Empire is effectively taken off the mask now I mean we're essentially in 19th century imperialism now in the..."
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"...of the world is coming into into into play um the masks are being taken off and uh you know it looks like we're..."
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"...it was very telling to me that it looked like the mask slightly slipped when Marco Rubio said, well, the need to attack preemptively..."
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"...do that well there are some options okay so miscellany the mask"
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"...OK, so what you want to do is you want to mask Kurdish insurgents and send them into Iran and what will happen is..."
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"...Saddam Hussein double they all have doubles and like really good masks so I this I was told this is the one he chose..."
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"...asking people for their id just randomly on the street with masks on yeah unmarked subarus that is so and the chick that got..."
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