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Models of manly beauty are rare out of novels, and seldom interesting in them.

— F. Anstey The Brass Bottle (1900)

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I can’t call myself a busy man—unfortunately,” said Horace, with that frankness which scorns to conceal what other people know perfectly well already.

The Brass Bottle (1900)

The knowledge that one has a remedy within reach is often as effectual as the remedy itself, if not more so.

Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)

No doubt they would tolerate him now for the Professor’s sake; but who would not rather be ignored than tolerated?

The Brass Bottle (1900)

Drastic measures is Latin for a whopping.

“Veracity, as thou wilt learn,” answered the Jinnee, “is not invariably the Ship of Safety.”

The Brass Bottle (1900)

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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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