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Any color, so long as it's red,
Is the color that suits me best,
Though I will allow there is much to be said
For yellow and green and the rest.

— Eugene Field

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It always was the biggest fish I caught that got away.

A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)

The best of all physicians
Is apple pie and cheese!

A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)

Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Within the compass of five generations we find the Puritan first an uncompromising believer in demonology and magic, and then a scoffer at everything involving the play of fancy.

Oh, you who've been a-fishing will indorse me
when I say
That it always is the biggest fish you catch that
gets away!

A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,
He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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