Is to seem everything but what they are.
—Goldsmith.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most grows two thereby.
—Herbert.
HYSTERICS
Father, teaching his six-year-old son arithmetic by giving a problem to his wife, begs his son to listen:
FATHER—"Mother, if you had a dollar and I gave you five more, what would you have?"