Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Human Countenance

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Literary Remains, edt. Henry Nelson Coleridge (London, 1836), vol. I., Human Countenance, p. 343:

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy, which must sadden, or at least soften, every reflecting observer.

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