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• I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Soul, Looks, Lasts

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• We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Dream, Money, Promise

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Past, Community

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 09, 2014

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• Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Long, Laughing, Pleasure

  Thomas De Quincey, Robert Morrison (2013). “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings”, p.39, Oxford University Press

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• He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, color, and complexion: he embraced the old statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.

  Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore

  Life, Science, Law

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• The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.

  Jane Gardam

  Novelists, Ugly, Tribes

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• Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.

  Malcolm X

  Color, Judging

  Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

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• Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

  Lytton Strachey

  Political, France, Advertising

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

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• Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.

  Dervla Murphy

  People, World, Height

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.69, The Overlook Press

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• Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Together, Affliction

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [586]

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• Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America, beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all types of complexions, but she always was white.And Miss World was always white, and Miss Universe was always white.And the angel fruit cake was the white cake and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake.I said, 'Momma, why is everything white?' I always wondered. And the President lived in the White House.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Angel, Cake

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.

  Havelock Ellis

  Religious, Jesus, Careers

  Impressions and Comments 5 January (1922)

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• Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

  Elizabeth Inchbald

  Motivation, Jaundice, Good Humor

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• After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.

  Marshall Brickman

  Real, Coffee, College

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• Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Thinking, Soul, Quality

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1701). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself”, p.74

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• If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Art, Red, Faces

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• The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Significant, Frailty, Sells

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• My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Personality, Portraits

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.133

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• Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

  Jane Austen

  Care, Plant, Should

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1082, Ageless Reads

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• The mixture of Sarmatic and German blood had contributed to improve the features of the Alani, to whiten their swarthy complexions, and to tinge their hair with a yellowish cast, which is seldom found in the Tartar race.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hair, Race, Blood

  Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury (2012). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edited in Seven Volumes with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• One of the most important finds within the land of Egypt occurred when the Egyptologist and archaeologist Professor Walter B. Emery (1903-1971) was excavating tombs at the necropolis of Saqqara, one of the oldest cities in the land. There Professor Emery discovered men with blond hair and fair complexions. These individuals were revered and honored by the Egyptians as specially endowed elite.

  Michael Tsarion

  Men, Hair, Egypt

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• ...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Eye, Students

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.148, Anchor

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• But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced to both parties concerned, effects of the same complexion with the usual fruits of national errour. The present age is cajoled to tax and enslave itself, by the errour of believing that it taxes and enslaves future ages to enrich itself.

  John Taylor of Caroline

  Party, Believe, Age

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• If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Pretty Woman, Needs, Her Beauty

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• So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Curse

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. [22]

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