Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

-- Victor Hugo

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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