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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ↗

— Socrates

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When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

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I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic. ↗

— David Copperfield

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The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear. ↗

— David Copperfield

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