“She is smiling and her eyes are kind but now the smile is purely social”
Pt. 1, Ch. 3 - p.62
Giovanni's Room (1956)
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“Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.”
Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1008–1010 (tr. R. C. Seaton)

As quoted in Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (1998) by John Templeton, p. 448
1990s
Context: Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

“Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) — and you’ll smile and receive smiles…”
Be Generous!