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«It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.»
«Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance»
«A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present»
«First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.»
«Iron sharpeneth iron; so man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.»
«Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.»
«The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.»
«Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.»
«If we believe that he (Jesus Christ) really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the»
«I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man»

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