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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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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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Silence
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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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design
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Beauty
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Thats the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesnt make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz. – Dave Brubeck

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Beauty

Id like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesnt matter, but it doesnt hurt. – Kirsten Dunst

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Beauty

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. – James Beattie

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Beauty

Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. – Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Beauty

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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. – Bruce Lee

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Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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