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e greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.--_Coleridge._ Proverbs are potted wisdom.--_Charles Buxton._ ~Appeal.~--Seeing all men are not [OE]dipuses to read the riddle of another man's inside, and most men judge by appearances, it behooves a man to barter for a good esteem, even from his clothes and outside. We guess the goodness of the pasture by the mantle we see it wears.--_Feltham._ ~Appearances.~--It is the appearances that fill the scene; and we pause not to ask of what realities they are the proxies. When the actor of Athens moved all hearts as he clasped the burial urn, and burst into broken sobs, how few then knew that it held the ashes of his son!--_Bulwer-Lytton._ What waste, what misery, what bankruptcy, come from all this ambition to dazzle others with the glare of apparent worldly success, we need not describe. The mischievous results show themselves in a thousand ways--in the rank frauds committed by men who dare to be dishonest, but do not dare to seem poor; and in the desperate dashes at fortune, in which the pity is not so much for those who fail, as for the hundreds of innocent families who are so often involved in their ruin.--_Samuel Smiles._ Foolish men mistake transitory semblances for eternal fact, and go astray more and more.--_Carlyle._ What is a good appearance? It is not being pompous and starchy; for proud looks lose hearts, and gentle words win them. It is not wearing fine clothes; for such dressing tells the world that the outside is the better part of the man. You cannot judge a horse by his harness; but a modest, gentlemanly appearance, in which the dress is such as no one could comment upon, is the right and most desirable thing.--_Spurgeon._ He was a man who stole the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in.--_Pollok._ I more and more see this, that we judge men's abilities less from what they say or do, than from what they look. 'T is the man's face that gives him weight. His doings help, but not more than his brow.--_Charles Buxton._ ~Appetite.~--Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind very studiously; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind this, will hardly mind anything else.--_Johnson._ Here's neither want of appetite nor mouths; pray Heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.--_Shakespeare._ This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.--_I
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