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1. Paragraph on Appearances Are Often Deceptive
Editorial Staff • March 26, 2019  1 minute read
“You can’t judge cigars hy the picture on the box,” says one of the characters in a two-
penny novel. As with cigars, so with men. Appearances are not of the least help in
ascertaining the component parts of the characters of those with whom we have to
deal. At the first meeting, they show their best side subsequently, on getting more
intimate with them we find that we have to revise our opinion aḥout them.
We live in a world where keeping up appearances is a necessity. We are constantly
obliged to humbug each other. The student, who very frequently shakes his head and
smiles at a professor’s lecture, is not in the least following the lecture. He is only trying
to appear so. The professor who every morning utters the high-sounding names of
about half a dozen books is not learned ten to one he has not read them. He. too, is
only trying to keep up appearances. There are probably only two places in the world
where people are not required to keep up appearances-the jail and the asylum. Living in
society one cannot do without this practice. It is this necessity for keeping up
appearances that leads a poor student in a college to pawn his books and have a smart
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2. suit to parade in. It is again to satisfy this necessity that a man brags about
achievements (his own) and failures (of other people).
A person who is perfectly frank and open is invariably considered somewhat of an ass
and is usually kicked with the opprobrious epithet “worthy.” There is no greater
condemnation of a person than to call him “worthy.” A “worthy” man lacking in brains, a
man whom any fool even yourself-can get round.
The modern age is essentially an age of appearances. Things are not what they appear.
The primitive man used to spit in the face of his enemy. Modern society shakes its
enemy by the hand and does not spit until he has passed by. Under a thin veneer of
frankness and henevolence, we find every day our worst enemies. One who seems to do
us to most good is almost invariably sowing the seeds of our ruin. We always pretend
to feel pleasure in those persons and things that only bore us and we have all cultivated
the art of speaking ill of our neighbors and friends only in their absence. The truth is
that we are all like that silly old wolf who masqueraded in a sheep’s garb.
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