“But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
However rare—rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?”
The quote "But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare—rare it be; And when I crumble, who wi…" is famous quote attributed to Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), English poet and fiction writer.
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Source: A Voice in the Wind
“When things are exquisitely beautiful and rare, they shouldn't be privately owned.”
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Quoted in Sarah Stuteville, " You might be a socialist if… An interview with Kshama Sawant http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2012/10/30/you-might-be-a-socialist-if-an-interview-with-kshama-sawant", The Seattle Globalist (October 30, 2012).
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Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Source: Following the Equator (1897), Ch. XLI
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Rispetto e correttezza, valori sempre più rari nel mondo. Appartengono esclusivamente a chi è una bella persona.
Source: prevale.net
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
Francesco Petrarca book De remediis utriusque fortunae
De remediis utriusque fortunae (1354), Book II
“Models of manly beauty are rare out of novels, and seldom interesting in them.”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) English novelist and journalist
Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 1, “Horace Ventimore Receives a Commission”