head-anointing

Updated: May 22, 2025

You would wonder, even in these degenerate days, you would be amazed could you be told how many of your own best friends in their stealthy, smiling, head-anointing, hypocritical way deny themselves this and that sweetness, this and that fatness, this and that softness, and are thus attaining to a strength, a courage, and a self-conquest that you are getting the benefit of in many ways without your ever guessing the price at which it has all been purchased.

Alexander Whyte - Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)