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May Quotes by Erving Goffman
- Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
- A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one…
- Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
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