One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer --that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffling, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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Actors are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream and the height of their ambition is to be beside themselves. They wear the livery of other men's fortunes their very thoughts are not their own.
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Life is the art of being well deceived.
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