wax-finished

Updated: July 17, 2026

In the end, that always creates a worse impression than if both sides of the story had been told at once or the bad had been told first. It's like buying a barrel of apples that's been deaconed after you've found that the deeper you go the meaner and wormier the fruit, you forget all about the layer of big, rosy, wax-finished pippins which was on top.

George Horace Lorimer - Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son