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  ...said, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."--THACKERAY.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused.--GIBBON.
What is beauty? Not the show Of shapely limbs and features. No. These are but flowers That have their dated hours To breathe their momentary sweets, then go. 'Tis the stainless soul within That outshines the fairest skin. --SIR A. HUNT.
I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. --SOCRATES.
Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.--G.A. SALA.
There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.--J. PETIT-SENN.
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.--OUIDA.
Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed with gold or silver beside,...   Socrates

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