"Unfortunately this moral looking-glass is not always a very good one. Common looking-glasses, it is said, are extremely deceitful, and by the glare which they throw over the face, conceal from the partial eyes of the person many deformities which are obvious to every body besides. But there is not in the world such a smoother of wrinkles as is every man's imagination, with regard to the blemishes of his own character."
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
10 entries in the ESTC (1759, 1761, 1764, 1767, 1774, 1777, 1781, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1797). A revised title with a complicated textual history.<br>
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See <u>The Theory of Moral Sentiments: By Adam Smith</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh, 1759). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T141578">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004894986.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Adam Smith, <u>The Theory of Moral Sentiments</u>, ed. D.D. Raphael and A.L. Macfie (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1984).