“Consider this word, “person.” Harry Emerson Fosdick once wrote a book called, How to be a Real Person. And this, in translation, means, how to be a genuine fake. Because the word “person” means a mask. The persona, the mask worn by actors in Greco-Roman drama, was a megaphone-mouthed mask through which (per-sona) the sound goes.”

– Alan Watts https://image.nostr.build/4c57380e3ad40580e75652003920257be46edefa6151709fa2f38faad1a78976.jpg  

 We also say "build character" to tell someone to toughen up. 

 Is that swisher sweet edited in? 

 No sir. It is the real deal