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Beauty
«Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole»
Author: Leon Battista Alberti
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Beauty
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adjustment, impair, impaired, impairing, impairs, proportionately, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts
«Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.»
Author: George MacDonald
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Beauty,
Nature,
Sadness
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alloy, alloyed, go forth, go together, sadness
«Beauty and folly are old companions.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Beauty,
Foolishness
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companions
«Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Beauty
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confused, impression, portion, size, symmetry
«Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
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Beauty
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Gold and Silver, tenfold, The Magnet