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"When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance."
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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."
"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."
"A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing."
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"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."
"The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them."
"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it."
"But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty."
"I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals."
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