Nov 19, 2008

Famous Quotes | A beautiful person among the...

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Beauty,” The Conduct of Life (1860).

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