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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
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"Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries."

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Steve King Politician
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"Even though me and Paul Ryan disagree on a whole lot of things, when he stood up and confronted those ugly words that [Donald] Trump said, I was proud of him."

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"We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly."

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Leon Brown Artist
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"Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy."

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
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"When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you"

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use."

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