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| Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett |
| I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. ~ Jonathan Swift |
| It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. ~ Jean Cocteau |
| Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~ Samuel Butler, |
| Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ~ Maurice Chevalier |
| Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli |
| A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, |
| Pretty is the queen that rules our land. ~ Carrie Latet |
| The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. ~ P.J. O’Rourke |
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| Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. ~ Lord Chesterfield |
| 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. ~ Daniel Webster |
| Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. ~ Baltasar Gracian |