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Things are seldom what they seem Skim milk masquerades as cream.

Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend c...

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Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in th...

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He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-br...

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I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...

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I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looki...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner ...

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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to ...

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As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "S...

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(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?

Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's...

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Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the ...

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Ernst CassirerThe Philosophy of Symbolic Forms 3: The Phenomenology of Knowledge

We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with...

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Friedrich NietzscheTwilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ

For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' an...

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Handsome is that handsome does.

Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.

He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

Let me be dressed fine as I will Flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not ...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...

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There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appe...

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I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the kn...

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Jerome K. JeromeIdle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

I do not know which of us has written this page.

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Jorge Luis BorgesLabyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

A man cannot dress without his ideas get clothed at the same time.

In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CE...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald with a baldness full of grandeur.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

All that glisters is not gold.

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visi...

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Why don't you get a haircut you look like a chrysanthemum.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'""The mood will pass, sir.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ...

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Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't...

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There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to b...

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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with ...

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We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and be...

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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.

I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I wa...

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He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.