Corra May Harris - Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the i

Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning, not from vanity always, but frequently because it is all he has got; no real sense, no wisdom of his own, merely much good stuff he has learned from other sources. He spreads it like a garment as any other decent person would to hide the thinness of his shanks.

- Corra May Harris

topic: Real, Vanity, Peaceful, Thinness, Shank, Antics