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| − | The assumption of sanctimoniousness, which after a series of years creates one of those elongated countenances, which are never mistaken, but which are difficult to describe, is one of the greatest follies which a person can commit. Such a countenance at once declares that the possesor is subject to the ordinary passions and emotions of human nature, and that he enjoys a proper use of the things of this world as well as his less hypocritical fellows. | + | The assumption of sanctimoniousness, which after a series of years creates one of those elongated countenances, which are never mistaken, but which are difficult to describe, is one of the greatest follies which a person can commit. Such a countenance at once declares that the possesor is subject to the ordinary passions and emotions of human nature, and that he enjoys a proper use of the things of this world as well as his less hypocritical fellows. But either from his early education, or from the customs of his profession or circle of acquaintances, he deems it proper that he should frown upon all the common modes of enjoyment, and by what he considers a pious mien proclaim himself to be holier than his fellows. |
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The assumption of sanctimoniousness, which after a series of years creates one of those elongated countenances, which are never mistaken, but which are difficult to describe, is one of the greatest follies which a person can commit. Such a countenance at once declares that the possesor is subject to the ordinary passions and emotions of human nature, and that he enjoys a proper use of the things of this world as well as his less hypocritical fellows. But either from his early education, or from the customs of his profession or circle of acquaintances, he deems it proper that he should frown upon all the common modes of enjoyment, and by what he considers a pious mien proclaim himself to be holier than his fellows.