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    We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)