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  • All live by seeming.
    The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier
    Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming;
    The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier
    Will eke with it his service.--All admit it,
    All practise it; and he who is content
    With showing what he is, shall have small credit
    In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.

    sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) (1862). “The Waverley novels. 25 vols.”, p.260