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The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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