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There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom; and it may be said that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom, so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain. - John Faucit Saville 'T is too much proved that with devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. - William Shakespeare Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own. - Logan Pearsall Smith Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be. - Leszczynski Stanislaus ("Stanislaus I") Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of many a comparatively wise man. - Unknown Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar. - Archbishop Richard Whately It is remarkable that great affectation and great absence of it (unconsciousness) are at first sight very similar; they are both apt to produce singularity. - Archbishop Richard Whately By giving sixty-five's pale wither'd mien, The blooming roses of sixteen. - Dr. John Wolcot (Wolcott or Woolcott) (used pseudonym Peter Pindar) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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