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Quote by Jane Austen
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a gir

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. – Jane Austen

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. – Jane Austen

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And at five oclock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country. – Erika Slezak

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A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty. – Diane Kruger

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I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles. – Pamela Anderson

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This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but shes still beautiful. – Tila Tequila

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