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His moments of most sentimental recollection were when he thought of the beauty of the sausages he had manufactured.

— Randolph Bedford Naught to Thirty-three (1944)

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‘I am as happy,’ said he, ‘as a kingk, enchoying himsellef in his harem mit his queens.’

Naught to Thirty-three (1944)

The different men we are in conceit and in humility! Vanity is all the vitamins and all the calories; vanity can keep a man warm in winter without blankets.

Naught to Thirty-three (1944)

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.

Naught to Thirty-three (1944)

It is not without design that the monkey with the rainbow stern climbs high. It is the advertisement of his sex appeal, and he doesn't climb far unless there is an audience.

Naught to Thirty-three (1944)

Australia has a word for the Anthony Comstocks, a word that should be used the world over to describe a killjoy, and that word is 'wowser'.

Naught to Thirty-three (1944)

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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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