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Artificial Manners.
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deavour is not to hide; but correct her failings, and her face has of courſe that beauty, which an attention to the mind only gives. I never knew a perſon really ugly, who was not fooliſh or vicious; and I have ſeen the moſt beautiful features deformed by paſſion and vice. It is true, regular features ſtrike at firſt; but it is a well ordered mind which occaſions thoſe turns of expreſſion in the countenance, which make a laſting impreſſion.

Feeling is ridiculous when affected; and even when felt, ought not to be diſplayed. It will appear if genuine; but when puſhed forward to notice, it is obvious vanity has rivalled ſorrow,

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