Where none admire, 't is useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.
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Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).George Lyttelton
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La solitude est certainement une belle chose, mais il y a plaisir d'avoir quelqu'un qui sache répondre, ? qui on puisse dire de temps en temps, que c'est un belle chose.
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac Balzac
How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire! 134
Blaise Pascal
I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called :What's the use?
Georges Bernanos
Il ne sert ? rien d'?tre jeune sans ?tre belle, ni d'?tre belle sans ?tre jeune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt
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