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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? One should never judge a person by external appearances. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
Many people nowadays consider external appearance an important factor in judging a person,because a good appearance will offer us favorable feelings (A person can 'offer' feelings, yes, but an 'appearance' doesn't 'offer' feelings because appearances don't have feelings to offer! I'm guessing you might have wanted to say 'a good appearance will win us favorable feelings' or something along that line.), thereby resulting in a sense of trust. Is that always true as to judge a person by what he/she looks like? Definitely not,on the contrary, I stick to the idea that we should never judge a person by the appearance, as suggested by the saying” You should never judge a book by its cover”.
In developing a friendship with someone new, it is always misleading to simply make judgments based on the external appearance. Despite it is very pleasant to consort with someone good-looking, in many cases, the fine appearance turns out not to be in consistence with the person`s inner qualities. For instance, when you make friends with others, you are most likely to be impressed by those so-called nice-looking persons. However, as the relationship develops and deepens, you will probably find that person with many weaknesses, such as selfishness, insolence, disloyalty etc.(I don't see why this is a 'for instance'. You're basically saying the same thing as you said in the first two sentences. The only 'for instance' part is the last few words where you explicitly spell out what the 'not in consistence' part was about.) All these qualities will not divulge themselves until you get deeper understandings, which may contradict with the external appearance.
In addition,external appearance is fickle as time goes by. Time kills everything. That is to say, external appearance is not stable ;on the contrary,it changes with time. What is unchangeable ,however,is the inner qualities of a person.(Hold that thought..if time kills everything it can well alter your inner qualities..) That is why we remember the greatest persons of their contemporaries,like Newton ,Vincent,Hawking,not because of what they look like,but because of their great minds that have shaped the world. Who can still recall the beauties of years ago, if their beauties have only something to do with external appearance? (Well but you do have the legends about the four beauties of ancient times, or Cleopatra's power of seduction, or Marilyn Monroe, or Casanova, or 潘安宋玉, or whoever. It's trivial, you may say, but if people remembered Newton because he's been a great scientist, then people remembered Cleopatra equally because she was a great mistress. The point is that they have been great, no matter in mind or beauty. If you insist that greatness in beauty is more trivial than greatness in mind, then well, that's beyond a TOEFL essay..)
Although, for some certain occupations, pleasant external appearances are greatly encouraged, most of the time inner qualities have the final say in making fair judgments about a person. Therefore, I hold firmly the view that we should never judge a person by the external appearance, because, it is inner appearance, rather than, external appearance that truly defines a person.
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This is well-done. I was, however, particularly unhappy about your argument about inner qualities being unchangeable, but then, I will not growl over such a philosophical issue as this is only a TOEFL essay..^ ^
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