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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. – Ambrose Bierce

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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. – Ambrose Bierce

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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection. – Ambrose Bierce

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But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content. – Anne Boyd

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The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space. – Ruth St. Denis

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There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. – William Congreve

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. – John Keats

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Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are. – Jason Crandell, quoted in Yoga Journal, November 2005

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