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  1. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Kats are very humble, espeshily just after they hav committed sum nu kind ov deviltry.
     
    [Cats are very humble, especially just after they have committed some new kind of deviltry.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-02 (1876 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/84041/

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  2. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Kats are very humble, espeshily just after they hav committed sum nu kind ov deviltry.
     
    [Cats are very humble, especially just after they have committed some new kind of deviltry.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-02 (1876 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/84041/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #cats #deviltry #disingenuity #falsemodesty #humility #mischief #shenanigans #deceit #pretense #facade

  3. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Kats are very humble, espeshily just after they hav committed sum nu kind ov deviltry.
     
    [Cats are very humble, especially just after they have committed some new kind of deviltry.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-02 (1876 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/84041/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #cats #deviltry #disingenuity #falsemodesty #humility #mischief #shenanigans #deceit #pretense #facade

  4. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Kats are very humble, espeshily just after they hav committed sum nu kind ov deviltry.
     
    [Cats are very humble, especially just after they have committed some new kind of deviltry.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-02 (1876 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/84041/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #cats #deviltry #disingenuity #falsemodesty #humility #mischief #shenanigans #deceit #pretense #facade

  5. A quotation from Moliere

    CLÉANTE: And just as there is nothing I more revere
       Than a soul whose faith is steadfast and sincere,
       Nothing that I more cherish and admire
       Than honest zeal and true religious fire,
       So there is nothing that I find more base
       Than specious piety’s dishonest face.
     
    [Et, comme je ne vois nul genre de héros
    Qui soient plus à priser que les parfaits dévots,
    Aucune chose au monde et plus noble et plus belle
    Que la sainte ferveur d’un véritable zèle,
    Aussi ne vois-je rien qui soit plus odieux
    Que le dehors plâtré d’un zèle spécieux.]

    Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
    Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 1, sc. 6 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963), 1.5]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/77585/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #devotion #disingenuity #facade #faith #fervor #hypocrisy #piety #pretense #zeal

  6. A quotation from Moliere

    CLÉANTE: And just as there is nothing I more revere
       Than a soul whose faith is steadfast and sincere,
       Nothing that I more cherish and admire
       Than honest zeal and true religious fire,
       So there is nothing that I find more base
       Than specious piety’s dishonest face.
     
    [Et, comme je ne vois nul genre de héros
    Qui soient plus à priser que les parfaits dévots,
    Aucune chose au monde et plus noble et plus belle
    Que la sainte ferveur d’un véritable zèle,
    Aussi ne vois-je rien qui soit plus odieux
    Que le dehors plâtré d’un zèle spécieux.]

    Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
    Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 1, sc. 6 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963), 1.5]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/77585/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #devotion #disingenuity #facade #faith #fervor #hypocrisy #piety #pretense #zeal

  7. A quotation from Moliere

    CLÉANTE: And just as there is nothing I more revere
       Than a soul whose faith is steadfast and sincere,
       Nothing that I more cherish and admire
       Than honest zeal and true religious fire,
       So there is nothing that I find more base
       Than specious piety’s dishonest face.
     
    [Et, comme je ne vois nul genre de héros
    Qui soient plus à priser que les parfaits dévots,
    Aucune chose au monde et plus noble et plus belle
    Que la sainte ferveur d’un véritable zèle,
    Aussi ne vois-je rien qui soit plus odieux
    Que le dehors plâtré d’un zèle spécieux.]

    Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
    Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 1, sc. 6 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963), 1.5]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/77585/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #devotion #disingenuity #facade #faith #fervor #hypocrisy #piety #pretense #zeal

  8. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
     
    [On n’est jamais si ridicule par les qualités que l’on a que par celles que l’on affecte d’avoir.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶134 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

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  9. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
     
    [On n’est jamais si ridicule par les qualités que l’on a que par celles que l’on affecte d’avoir.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶134 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #affectation #facade #fool #image #joke #pretending #pretense #qualities #ridicule #ridiculousness #scorn #deceit #disingenuity