Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.478, Рипол Классик
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