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Nothing gives life a finer touch of grace, than the presence in the family circle of a lovely girl of seventeen.

— Charles Buxton

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Beauty

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All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Notes of Thought (1883)

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Notes of Thought (1883)

Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.

Notes of Thought (1883)

The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Notes of Thought (1883)

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Notes of Thought (1883)

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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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