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APPEARANCE: Handsome is that handsome does. (Henry Fielding, English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)

APPEARANCE: A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. (Publilius Syrus, Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 1st Century B.C.E.)

APPEARANCE: He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. (Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic, 1812-1870)

APPEARANCE: The most delightful advantage of being bald - one can hear snowflakes. (Unknown source)

APPEARANCE: Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty. (Nikolai Gogol, Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin, 1809-1852)

APPEARANCE: People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes. (Richard J. Needham, Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996)

APPEARANCE: He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

APPEARANCE: There's one thing about baldness - it's neat. (Don Herold, humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist. 1889-1966)

APPEARANCE: One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes. (John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1867-1933)

APPEARANCE: A man cannot dress, without his ideas getting clothed at the same time. (Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman, 1713-1768)