"We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters."
— Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) Castle Rackrent, preface (1800)
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| Portrait of Humphrey Davy by Thomas Lawrence (c. 1821) |
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