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Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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