You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful… — Quoted

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“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.”

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Jane Austen

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Beauty

Daniel Hannan

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

Beauty

Marvin Hamlisch

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

Beauty

Serge Gainsbourg

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Beauty