• The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

  Eliza Farnham
  American novelist, feminist and abolitionist
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. development
2. experience
3. legitimate
4. language
5. majestic
6. mistress

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The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. by : Eliza Farnham

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