COREENNES_SIX JOURS STACK014

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It remains that the Oriental smile,
as everyone knows, is a mask-that the
Asiatic is a tiger stitched into
the skin of a cat. An Oriental
dramaturge would have his tragedies
played behind a lowered curtain.
Such is their dissimulation; and the
most dangerous passions circulate
in the shadows. (Variant: The Asian
has no passions.)