No. 46.
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know it is said, in justification of this
hollow kind of conversation, that there is
no harm, no real deceit, in compliment-but
that the matter is well enough, so long as we
understand one anothcr:-yer6a Uaienf ut
numni-7vords are like money:-and when
the current value of them is generally un-
derstood, no man is cheated by them. This
is something, if such words are any thing;
but, being brought into the account, they
are mere ciphers.-However, it is just mat
ter of compliment, that sincerity and hlain-
ness are out of fashion, and that our Lam
guage is running into lie; that men have
almost perverted the use of speech, and
made words to signify nothing; that the
greater part of the conversation of mankind
is little else but driving trade of Gissimu-
latjon. insomuch, that it would make a man
sick and weary of the world to see the little
sincerity that is in use and practice among
men.


lfthe show of any thing be good for any
thing, am sure sincerity is better; for why
does any man dissemble, or seem to be that
which he is not. but because he thinks it
good to have such quality as he pretends
to- for to counterfeit and dssemble, is to
put on the appearance of some real excel
lency. Now the best way in the world to
seem to be any thing, is really to be what he
would seem to be. Besides that. it is many
times as troublesome to make good the pre-
tence of a good quality, as to have it; and if
man has it not, it is ten to one but he is
discovered to want it; and then all his pains
and labor to seem to have it, are lost. What
soever convenience may be thought to be
in taischood and dissimulation, it is soon over;
but the inconvenience OF it is perpetual be-
cause it brings man under AN everlasting
,a,l1 !. g. L.
lieved when he speaks the truth-nor trust
ed when perhaps he means honesty. When
tnan has once forfeited the reputation of
his Integrity, he is set free; and nothing will
then serve his turn, neither truth nor false
hood.