No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American writer
The Scarlet Letter, ch. 20 “The Minister in a Maze” (1850)
(Source)
See La Rochefoucauld.



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