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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.

    But the world is not deceived by this artifice. No, not they. They simply see a man with perverted powers, who is incapable of appreciating the amenities of life, because he sought therein with false promises, and while they smile as his endeavors to silence the internal quarrel between his fancied duties and his real inclinations, they pity him, first because of his narrow mindedness, and secondly, because of his puerile attempts to deceive the world as to the real state of his mind. Did such men really know what their countenances really proclaimed to the world, after some little practice, they would strive to alter their facial indices if