When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of … - Ernest Bramah

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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Ernest Bramah

When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.

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