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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
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.