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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead inst...

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I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

Trust not too much to appearances.

All that was left to us was to wonder: who knows all that is innate to this world, or to any other? ...

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He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was im...

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Thomas MannBuddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people th...

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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree i...

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Appearances are often deceiving.

But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

Another vampire pushed her way through the crowd to stand at hisside—a pretty blue-haired Asian girl...

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...

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Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control a...

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People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

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Douglas AdamsThe Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s c...

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In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and th...

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The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the ...

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What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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Jane AustenSense and Sensibility

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...

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