"Not for nothing one face, one character,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
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“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.”