"That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience."
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"Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you."
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"Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that."
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"Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners."
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"Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on."
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"The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face."
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"Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none."
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"There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed."
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"Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it."
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"So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face."
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"Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun."
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"The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look at the public with a straight face and say yes we ran on balanced budgets."
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"What’s this here,” he said suspiciously, “about us got to give you faggots?” Oh, we have to have them,” said Newt, “We burn them.” Say what?” We burn them.” The guard’s face broadened into a grin. And they’d told him England was soft. “Right on!” he said"
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"A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace."
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"And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection."
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"There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright."
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"I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context."
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"There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one."
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"No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first."
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"Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature."
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