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  • Alexander Pope Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Simone Weil Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Helen Gurley Brown Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
    Helen Gurley Brown
    American author, publisher and businesswoman (1922 - 2012)
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  • Jean Rostand Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
    a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
    a flower that dies when it begins to bud;
    a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
    lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • George Bancroft Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Georges Bataille Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Kin Hubbard Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • George Bancroft Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Arnold Bennett Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Ben Folds Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bernice Weissbourd Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
    Bernice Weissbourd
    American psychologist
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  • Anne McCaffrey Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Pierre de Beaumarchais Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
    Pierre de Beaumarchais
    French playwright (1732 - 1799)
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  • Bobby Charlton Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Casey Stengel Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Ludwig Van Beethoven Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
    Ludwig Van Beethoven
    German composer (1770 - 1827)
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