Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Commonplace Book

'"Oh, yes, the English are consummate hypocrites. But there's only one objection to their hypocrisy - it so rarely covers any wickedness. It's such a disappointment to see a creature stalking towards you, laboriously draped in sheep's clothing, and then to discover that it's only a sheep..."'

from The Invisible Prince, a piece in Comedies and Errors by Henry Harland

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