"Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly."
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"LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably."
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"A pleasing face is no small advantage."
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"I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?"
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"And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors."
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"Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?"
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"A lie faces God and shrinks from man."
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"Life is hard, but it's even harder when you don't wanna face it."
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"What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh?"
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"Carrie Fay always says that nothing is really horrible unless it eats away your face."
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"The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present."
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"An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa."
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"One can only face in others what one can face in oneself."
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"If a woman has a good ass the rest of her wil be nicely configured too, except for maybe the face. The face is always on its own."
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"The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it"
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"Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses."
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"A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it."
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"She was only a prostitute, but she had the nicest face I ever came across."
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"I saw Danny Kaye in a movie, and he was doing voices and faces on that big, big screen and making whole audiences laugh. It was just an instant hookup."
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"I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!"
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