“There are some people who raise their upper lip so high…that their teeth are almost entirely visible. This is entirely contradictory to decorum, which forbids you to allow your teeth to be uncovered, since nature gave us lips to conceal them.” ~Baptiste De La Salle, author Of ‘The Rules of Christian Decorum and Civility of 1703’
Baptiste De La Salle – on photographic decorum
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