They keep saying that these things are dignified, and compassionate, and maybe they are. But I recall Sigma Chi's shouting "PARTY!" every few minutes when things weren't launching well, and a woman I know who tells me that she is a kind person, and any number of people who assure me that they are smart , or hardworking, or whatever. I always think "If you have to keep announcing the virtue, is it really true? Isn't that like standing in the Temple court or on the streetcorners rather than going into your prayer closet?"
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They keep saying that these things are dignified, and compassionate, and maybe they are. But I recall Sigma Chi's shouting "PARTY!" every few minutes when things weren't launching well, and a woman I know who tells me that she is a kind person, and any number of people who assure me that they are smart , or hardworking, or whatever. I always think "If you have to keep announcing the virtue, is it really true? Isn't that like standing in the Temple court or on the streetcorners rather than going into your prayer closet?"
"Et Satan conduit le bal." ("And Satan leads the dance.") -- Mephistopheles, Gounod's Faust
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