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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

Ugliness

WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

Ugliness

NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century

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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Ugliness

Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

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The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Ugliness

PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Ugliness

AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

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