"To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty."
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"And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires."
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"How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken."
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"Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it."
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"Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them."
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"Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?"
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"Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse."
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"Beauty is a fragile gift."
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"The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people."
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"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said."
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"When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future."
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"Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?"
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"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!"
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"Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem."
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"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband."
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"Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness."
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"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived."
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"Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty."
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"I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them."
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"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"
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