“A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.”

Vol. 2, Ch. 29, § 377
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims

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