• Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

    William Shenstone: Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
    William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.210