“Where none admire, 't is useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.”

—  George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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