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The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.
The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.
Approximate author period: c. 51 AD · classical
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- Pliny The Elder
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- Approximate author period: c. 51 AD · classical
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Natural History, Book vii. Sect. 8.
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