Hateful to me even as the gaits of Hades is he that hideth one thing in his heart and uttereth another.
Achilles in Homer's, Iliad, 10th Century BC
A hypocrite is someone who writes a book on atheism, and then prays it'll sell.
Anonymous
As soon as you observe that everybody agrees with you, you can be sure they don't mean it.
Anonymous
When a scolar speaks what he ought not to speak by guile of speech to gain some end, and when he does not speak, by guile of silence to gain some end--both these cases are of a piece with breaking through a neighbor's wall.
Mencius, Works of Mencius, 4th Century BC.
The characteristic modern malady is not plain and unvarnished materialism but sham spirituality.
Irving Babbitt, Living Philosophies, 1931
Ad-um-brate
1. To
give a sketchy outline of. 2. To prefigure indistinctly, foreshadow. #. To disclose
partially or guardedly. [Latin adumbrare, to represent in outline:ad-, + umbra shadow]
Definition from American Heritage Dictionary
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TRUE FACT ... Humans begin laughing at two to three months of age. Six year olds laugh about 300 times per day, while adults laugh from 15 to 100 times per day. |
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