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underpants

(182,878 posts) Sun Mar 13, 2022, 07:46 PM Mar 2022

Beauty

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'Beauty is as beauty does.' empedocles Mar 2022 #1

empedocles

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1. 'Beauty is as beauty does.'

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Sun Mar 13, 2022, 07:54 PM

Mar 2022

'In 1766, in the preface to 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Oliver Goldsmith wrote: 'Handsome is that handsome does.' First attested in the United States in 'Journal of a Lady of Quality'. The saying is found in varying forms, including 'Beauty is as beauty does'."

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