• Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.

  Booth Tarkington
  American novelist and dramatist 1869-1946
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. superciliousness
2. permanently
3. projected
4. through
5. looking
6. lower

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Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain. by : Booth Tarkington

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