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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."
"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small."
"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all."
"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
"If you have a good sense of dressing, there wouldn't be any need to spend a fortune to look good."
"Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury."
"The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance."
"For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms."
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"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"
"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
"All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears."
"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
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