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"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
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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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"He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!""
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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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"There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element."
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"Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life."
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"Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny."
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