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Dean Swift proposed to tax female beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms. He said the tax would be cheerfully paid, and very productive.

— Frederick Saunders Salad for the Social (1856)

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Beauty

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True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most people are aware of.

Mosaics (1859)

Mammon is the largest slaveholder in the world.

Salad for the Social (1856)

Good humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

Mosaics (1859)

Charity, in whatever guise she appears, is the best-natured and the best-complexioned thing in the world.

Stray Leaves of Literature (1888)

Character is the governing element in life, and is above genius.

Stray Leaves of Literature (1888)

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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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