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You see Georgy’s the beauty and Carry’s the wit, and I ought to be the good one, but then I am such a liar.

— Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye

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Surely it is hardly worthwhile to take up a pursuit merely to please other people.

In short, the world owns that we are the best-looking family in England and we are pretty well disposed to agree.

Rest now—and weep—thou praised of Earth!
And own, when all is done,
A world's false worship is not worth
The deep tried love of one.

Songs, Poems, & Verses (1894)

Thou mourner for departed dreams!
On earth there is no rest
When grief hath troubled the pure streams
Of memory in thy breast!

Songs, Poems, & Verses (1894)

The poor make no new friends;
But oh, they love the better still
The few our Father sends.

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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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