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"Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds."

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Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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