I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.
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In accepting his Nobel Prize, in December 1950; as quoted in LIFE, Editorials, 'A great mind is still annoying and adorning our age', 26 May 1952. (Russell denied that he had contributed anything in particular to literature.)Bertrand Russell
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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens
But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
However rare—rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?Walter de la Mare
It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman.
Eliza Calvert Hall
A lovely lady, garmented in light
From her own beauty.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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