"Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness and Ideality, intrinsic elegance is much more pleasing and permanently agreeable, than forms of less merit, recommended merely by being new. Hence there is a beauty which never palls, and there are objects over which fashion exercises no control."

-- George Combe

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“Eventually I would like to reach the stage where I don't have to write about love and kisses and all that stuff. I wish I could write about really ultimate things. That's where I think all of us want to go, really. All the groups seem to be heading towards a kind of pop music that deals with ultimate things.”
“Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.”
“If you have any of these qualities... love, kindness, compassion, sincerity and truth in your heart.... you will always find your way home.”
“It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!”
“One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.”
“Who's famous anymore? No one. There are these comedians that are famous in a weird way. There are comedians, like Anjelah Johnson and Russell Peters, [who] are unbelievably famous, but in a way they're selling out 1,000-person stadiums.”
“I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.”
“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”

Source : R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.309, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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