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“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“What do I care how he looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And I shall do zat!” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“All that glisters is not gold, Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms infold.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years hath not yet div'd into the world's deceit: nor more can you distinguish of a man than of his outward show; which, God He knows, seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.” William Shakespeare, Richard III
“the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“one never does form a just idea of any body beforehand. One takes up a notion, and runs away with it.” Jane Austen, Emma

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love fear society appearance others deceit innocence judgment gold image vulgar

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William Shakespeare (2)
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