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"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."
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"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."
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"An important part of dressing for success is not only wearing something well but making sure it is appropriate for the occasion or the environment."
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"There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life."
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"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance."
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"Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic."
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"Criticism of one's appearance hurts, no matter what."
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"Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?"
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"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."
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"Beauty can be treacherous."
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"If you have a good sense of dressing, there wouldn't be any need to spend a fortune to look good."
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
Truth
"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious."
Victory
"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."
Creativity
"The act of dying is one of the acts of life."
Life
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
Man
"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."
Power
"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."
Nature
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
Man
"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
Reading
"Anger cannot be dishonest."
Anger
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