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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! - Henry Fielding
Attribution: Henry Fielding (1707–1754), British novelist, dramatist. Dr. Harrison, in Amelia, vol. 3, bk. 9, ch. 5 (1751). The proverb referred to was attributed to Aristotle by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. 5, sct. 18: “Beauty he declared to be a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction.”

Categories: Dramatist, Faces

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