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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. – Thomas Carlyle

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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! – Thomas Carlyle

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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. – Thomas Carlyle

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Beauty is first and foremost an emotion. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. – Leon Battista Alberti

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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesnt somebody wake up to the beauty of old women. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. – John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1851

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