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~There is no excellent
beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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-Francis Bacon
The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625
"Of Beauty"
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*How many women I know whose
beauty would gain a great deal if they became silent; . . .her lips would not
reveal at every turn that her brain is as imperfectly drawn as the line of
her features is perfect.
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-Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera
Concerning Women's Intelligence and Beauty, 1876
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*Beauty without intelligence
is an illusion that is close to disenchantment. It is like a fairy that
fascinates us, as long as we look at her through the enchanting prism of her
beauty. However, it disappears as soon as the light of reason penetrates
beyond the place where the eyes can see.
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-Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera
Concerning Women's Intelligence and Beauty, 1876
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~Though we travel the world
over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays: First Series, 1841
Essay XII, "Art"
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~Beauty is eternity gazing
at itself in a mirror.
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-Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, 1923
"Beauty"
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*A good story is like a
beautiful body. A beautiful body is beautiful to any audience in any day,
age or century; the only thing that changes is the fashion in clothing.
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-Ayn Rand
Private correspondence to Henry Blanke (producer for The Fountainhead
movie), February 26,1949
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 6, "The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged Years (1945-1959)"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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Beauty is power; a smile is a sword.
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-Charles Reade
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