Oscar Wilde once said, ““Nothing
makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.” For a man in
California, a simple self-search on Google proved the opposite can sometime be
true: Washington
Post – a little vanity led him to recognize himself as a sinner, at least
within the eyes of the law. The man found that he was on the California “Most
Wanted List” and rather than run, like most sane people would do, he decided to
turn himself in. Actually, maybe Mark Twain is more apt here: “It is just like
man’s vanity to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perception.”
But I think Samuel Johnson has the final word on the matter, though serendipity
and not intent: “The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is
generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.”
Thursday, March 20, 2014
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