Friday, June 21, 2024

Shadows Of Virtues

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

-- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845), English clergyman, critic, philosopher, and wit, Sermon XII, Sermons (1809)

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