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"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."
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"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"

"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."

"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"

"How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?"

"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"

"The beauty of truth is in its simplicity."
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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."


"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."


"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."


"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."


"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."


"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
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