"Who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requisites of man."
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Johann Kaspar Lavater, Aphorisms on Man, translated by Henry Fuseli (London: J. Johnson, 1788), Aphorism 125, pp. 47–48.
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