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If I could only have seen her when I was a young man! The contemplation of her beauty might have changed my whole life. Beauty can do that, can’t it?

— Charles G. Finney The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935)

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“Well,” said the chief in disgust, “there’s two people I don’t never argue with: one’s a woman and the other’s a damn fool. And you aint no woman!”

The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935)

“Oh, misery!” screamed the doctor. “Why do they have to fight so when there is nothing to fight about? They are as stupid as humans.

The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935)

He said Heaven reminded him more than anything else of an advertisement he had once read of Southern California.

The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935)

It had always been my belief that beauty was a modification of sex. Life sings a song of sex. Sex is the scream of life.

The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935)

Minks: Fierce and beautiful hunters who, when they ease up on their vigilance find themselves converted into coats and collars.

The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935)

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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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