“What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,—generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.”

The Beautiful, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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