“True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“Models of manly beauty are rare out of novels, and seldom interesting in them.”
Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 1, “Horace Ventimore Receives a Commission”
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