The Transmutation of Ling
The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900)
“The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.”
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Pliny the Elder
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Natural History
Book VII, sec. 8.
Naturalis Historia
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