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“I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.”

Hard Values Hard Work Appearance Reputation

Author:Richard L. Hanna

“We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.”

Mind Humans Matter Reason Reality Values Justice Weakness Aspect Appearance Manners Human Mind Bias Superficial Disagreeable Exterior Gilded Bad Manners

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?”

Different Use Values Language Force Essentials Degrees Shadow Assuming Appearance Painter Sufficient Opposition Shade Rationality Lighters True And False Different Values

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.”

Kind May Values Silence Style Dignity Appearance Giver Vulgarity

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.”

Values Memories Quality Flower Appearance Sentimentality Thrift Quilts

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town

“What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?”

Giving Persons Faces Values Names Regard Appearance Devotion Hypocrisy Distinction Mask Sincerity Cash Phantoms Artifice Counterfeit

Author:Moliere

“Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.”

Men Seems Values Appearance Jackets Self Empowerment Usefulness

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton