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• The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

  Charles Sumner

  Believe, Book, Mean

  Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.1564, Library of Alexandria

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• Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.

  Ramakrishna

  Beautiful, Men, Blue

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna", p. 37, 1960.

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• If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, White, Faults

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna", p. 299, 1960.

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• There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Pride, Men, Thinking

  "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix: A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, Cornell University Press, June 6, 1824 (p. 45), 1980.

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• Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

  Anthony Trollope

  Past, Men, Lasts

  Anthony Trollope (1874). “Phineas Redux”, p.210

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• All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.

  William Cobbett

  Kingdoms, Millions

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• England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286

  Margaret Drabble

  Country, Tired, Mean

  1989 A Natural Curiosity.

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• Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Break Through, Skins, Plot

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• Because of my job, I learned to be confident a little earlier than most. People pick you apart when you're in the public eye - you're wearing the wrong shoes or you have ugly nail polish on or they're wondering if you got your boobs done - so you have to be a strong person right away.

  Heidi Klum

  Strong, Jobs, Eye

  Allure, April 2010.

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• I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Beautiful, Stars, Dark

  "Borat and Queen Crown British Success at Globes". www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2007.

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• Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

  Glen Duncan

  Beautiful, Truth, Ifs

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• Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.

  David Gemmell

  Taken, Men, People

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 23, May 1, 1988.

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• An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

  J. Milton Hayes

  Heart, Knives, Yellow

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• Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region. No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.

  Ali Khamenei

  Thug, Israel, Iran

  "Iran Leader Urges Destruction of 'cancerous' Israel". Friday sermon, edition.cnn.com. December 15, 2000.

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• In junior high, there were a lot of really ugly guys who were popular because they made people laugh. I was like, "Wow, comedy is the great freer of hideous people." It was an incredibly liberating thing. If you ask a girl, "What do you want in a guy?" 99 percent are like, "I just want him to be funny." I thought, "If that applies to women, I'm set.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, People, Laughing

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• Even as late as the summer of 2006, as home prices began to fall, it took a certain kind of person to see the ugly facts and react to them-to discern, in the profile of the beautiful young lady, the face of an old witch.

  Michael Lewis

  Beautiful, Summer, Fall

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

  Kevin Rudd

  Wings, Modern, Liberalism

  Kevin Rudd's first speech to parliament as Labor Leader, www.theaustralian.com.au. December 5, 2006.

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• I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my "pop-star thing"... so I said to her I couldn't sleep with her either - cos of her 'ugly thing'.

  Robbie Williams

  Stars, Sleep, Ugly Things

  "Robbie Quotes". www.bbc.co.uk. September 24, 2014.

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• Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
  Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.

  Thom Yorke

  Ambition, Kicking, Looks

  "Song: 'Paranoid Android'". 1997.

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• It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.

  Ivan Panin

  Love, Beautiful, Sight

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• There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

  Stephanie Klein

  Ugly Duckling, Almost Perfect, Ducklings

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• The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

  Florence Earle Coates

  Art, Mean, Soul

  The New York Times, December 10, 1916.

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• The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.

  Jan Peacock

  Spiritual, Imagination, Doe

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• What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own... I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else.

  Jim Rowe

  Wise, Artist, Thinking

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• The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?

  Abe Ajay

  Fashion, Art, Blow

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