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On why our features sag, It is by the natural and unaffected…
Quote byWilliam Hogarth · 1697–1764
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Analysis of Beauty (1753).
English (original)
On why our features sag, It is by the natural and unaffected movements of the muscles, caused by the passions of the mind, that every man's character would in some measure be written in his face, by the time he arrives at forty years of age.
— William Hogarth
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