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Yet, strange to say, what different masks does self-assuming virtue wear!

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio