“There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let a penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, -- or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.”
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Laurence Sterne,
Tristram Shandy: An Authoritative Text, the Author on the Novel, Criticism