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| A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. |
| Thomas Paine |
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| Appearances are often deceiving. |
| Aesop |
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| Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord |
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| But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him |
| Bible |
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| First appearance deceives many. |
| Ovid |
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| For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances |
| Confucius |
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| If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. |
| Aristotle |
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| It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. |
| Thornton Wilder |
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| It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find. |
| Colin Powell |
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| Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. |
| Samuel Butler |
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| Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. |
| George Orwell |
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| She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. |
| Woody Allen |
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| The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear |
| Samuel Johnson |
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