Quote by Washington Irving
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity witho

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. – Washington Irving

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. – Washington Irving

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I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness. – Renee Vivien

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Stories arent the beauty of what did happen. Theyre the beauty of what could happen. – Brad Meltzer

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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when were children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether theyre scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, its pretty much in the eye of the beholder. – Stephen King

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