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it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

— Frances Burney Evelina (1778)

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Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally brings as much pain as pleasure.

Evelina (1778)

Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic; but to dispense them worthily must, surely, be more beneficial to mankind.

Evelina (1778)

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

Evelina (1778)

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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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