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The Conduct of Life Quotes
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Source:
(Ticknor and Fields, ed. 1860), Essay VIII. Beauty, Page 264
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Book:
The Conduct of Life
Writer:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genre:
Essays
Published:
1860
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