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"My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain."
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"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."

"A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired."

"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."

"If you have a good sense of dressing, there wouldn't be any need to spend a fortune to look good."

"The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance."

"A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing."

"Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?"

"Your face, my thane, is as a book where menMay read strange matters. To beguile the time,Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under't."

"If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained."

"Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?"
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"You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people."


"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"


"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own."


"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate."


"A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do."
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