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- Physiognomy
- n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
- “There is no art,” says Shakespeare, foolish man, “To read the mind’s construction in the face.” The physiognomists his portrait scan, And say: “How little wisdom here we trace! He knew his face disclosed his mind and heart, So, in his own defence, denied our art.”
- Lavatar Shunk