Yup, from the Monty Python ensemble!

Agreed with your thoughts. I was quite literally referring to the possibility of two kinds of people, one who learns, rather naively, from books, stories, and words, one for example who grows up in a more affluent house, and doesn't learn the world through other people's actions, but through other people's words, for instance his private teachers, that all give him an idealized view of the world. Whereas the man-boy of action, who grows up having to farm the field, having to deal with real people every day, who has to navigate through their pretense, who learns early on that people say one thing and do another, will learn about the world through action, and thus be less idealistic, and less likely to be moral, since he'll try to fit into what the world is. It's just rather interesting, that this saying, "do as I say and not as I do", seems to reveal so much more about humans than what people have thought. For one, like I mentioned in the post, it seems to codify the idea that our words are always nobler than our actions. This presents to us a being whose "spirit is willing" but whose "flesh is weak". And there's so much more to be unpacked in that one saying.