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most worth, the other most penetration; the one is open and tractable, the other pertinacious and close. Need I say more to distinguish their characters?

The forehead of LXVII. scarcely could appertain to a man, but rather that of LXVI. might. Every good physiognomist however may discover the female forehead from the male by the touch alone.

LXVIII.

SANGUINE-phlegmatic character, void of care, fanciful, witty, benevolent, tractable, lively, capable of improvement, possessed of talents, quick to undertake and to abandon, not easily completing any enterprise.—Such foreheads rapidly conceive and impart, but seldom with sufficient accuracy, unless it be on subjects which they have long selected for the display of their abilities.

LXIX.

THIS forehead, though phlegmatic-sanguine, is more firm than the former, more accurate, has more propriety, more love of order and pertinacity. Every wise physiognomist considers the continuation of the line of the forehead descending to the nose, as far as it is bone and cartilage, as forming

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