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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. – Richard Steele

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It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it. – Richard Steele

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I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes. – Richard Steele

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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. – William Shenstone

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Im still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe its generic beauty, but its weird to be valued for something I was born with. – Josie Maran

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I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania. – Sharon Stone

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Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. – W. Somerset Maugham

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