Rousseau (I’ll note with your permission)Could not conceive how solemn GrimmDared clean his nails in front of him,The madcap sage and rhetorician.Champion of rights and liberty,In this case judged wrong-headedly.One still can be a man of actionAnd mind the beauty of one’s nails:Why fight the age’s predilection?Custom’s a despot and prevails.
-Alexander Pushkin
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