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Anna Katharine Green
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“... the hand will often reveal more than the countenance ...”
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“... a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.”
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“The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed ...”
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“It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.”
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“... faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age — an absolute mirror of the soul within.”
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“It was the smile which runs before a promise.”
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“There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.”
Anna Katharine Green, U.S. writer
(1846 - 1935)