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The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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The Nakedness Of The Indigent World May

Oliver Goldsmith
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
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The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. it is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. when true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. one way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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When the gauls laid waste rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. how truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! how different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness.
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