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Quote by Charlie Chaplin
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be ex

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. – Charlie Chaplin

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To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune. – Charlie Chaplin

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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. – Charlie Chaplin

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As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. – Arthur Cayley

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The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other. – George H. Mead

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. – Jean Paul

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I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle. – James Weldon Johnson

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