Assumed Mode

Famous quotes containing the words assumed and/or mode:

    Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
    —V.S. (Victor Sawdon)

    The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,—a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,—to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)