quote · Legacy record
If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?
If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?
Approximate author period: c. 1662 AD · renaissance
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- John Tillotson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1662 AD · renaissance
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Sincerity · anthology attribution: Tillotson
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