A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780–1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist

Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 202 (1820)
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