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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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Beauty
Illustration by "Dwig" from
Whimlets, 1902

BEAUTY

 

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.
- A Tramp Abroad

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare.
- Innocents Abroad

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques--especially to mosques.
- Innocents Abroad



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