There is hardly a man or woman who dares to be just what he or she is without doctoring up the impression.
 A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (1948). copy citation

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Author A. W. Tozer
Source The Pursuit of God
Topic women impression
Date 1948
Language English
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“By this I mean not hypocrisy, but the common human desire to put the best foot forward and hide from the world our real inward poverty. For sin has played many evil tricks upon us, and one has been the infusing into us a false sense of shame. There is hardly a man or woman who dares to be just what he or she is without doctoring up the impression. The fear of being found out gnaws like rodents within their hearts. The man of culture is haunted by the fear that he will some day come upon a man more cultured than himself. The learned man fears to meet a man more learned than he.” source