"Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact."
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"You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question."
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"Congress is best viewed from a distance - the farther the better - because up close, it is truly ugly."
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"Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?"
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"What I hate is nasty, ugly people."
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"The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never."
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"Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close."
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"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."
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"Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)"
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"Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin."
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"the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?"
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"Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive."
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"Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count."
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"The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour."
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"They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair."
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"Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly."
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"Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire."
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"Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference."
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"I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly."
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"It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces ."
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