You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

That doesn't give me any insight if it's just a run-of-the-mill 'here's my formula' recommendation letter.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.