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Show Unreliable Physiognomy. I am a profound disbeliever In physiognomy. phys-iognomy. Features are false witnesses. wit-nesses. Stupidity frequently wears a mask of intelligence. I know business busi-ness men who look like poets and poets who , look like business men. Men of genius invariably look like idiots, and If you pick out the man who looks most eminent in a party you are sure to find he Is a nobody. I always distrust men who look magnificent. mag-nificent. Nature is a stingy creature. She seldom gives a man the double gift of being great and looking great. She took care to lame Byron and deform de-form Pope and disfigure Johnson. But the crowning example of her jealous parsimony is Shakespeare. I have always al-ways been disappointed with Shakespeare's Shakes-peare's face. It does not live up to his poetry. It is dull, heavy and commonplace. com-monplace. Adventures In London. |