"A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm."

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Source : Edgar Saltus (1925). “The Uplands of Dream”

Edgar Saltus

#Beautiful Quotes #Neglect Quotes #Charm Quotes

“There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.”
“No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.”
“In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.”
“If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart.”

Source : "Holland's high-camp hero of new politics". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 4, 2002.
“Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.105
“He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.170, BoD – Books on Demand
“To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.”
“...lying spread-eagled in the hall with only my ankle inside the room that kept me prisoner here. They really should have thought of that and tagged my neck or something.”

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