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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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