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"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features."
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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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"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
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"The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool."
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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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"Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well."
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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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"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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"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."
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"The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends."
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"Most of us don't notice how great we look until years, even decades later. Not long ago, I was looking at photos of myself at various ages and weights-way before the neckular deterioration began, way before the fanny pack of menopause-and I could see how gorgeous I must have looked to everyone else."
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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
Friendship
"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."
Religion
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
Acting
"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."
Friendship
"No young man ever thinks he shall die."
Man
"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."
Beauty
"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts."
Courage
"We had as lief not be as not be ourselves."
Identity
"We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."
Motivation
"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."
People
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