“As blushing will sometimes make a whore
pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”
If modesty makes
a fool seem like a man of sense, does immodesty make a fool seem even more
foolish? Or does he merely remain a shameless whore who also seems a fool?
I'lll take a
lot of credit for giving Swift the inspiration for the above quote. I
spun him over in his grave a few times by playing Mitt Romney’s recent radio
interview taking credit for the bailout that insured General Motors’
survival.
