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• All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
  The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through....
• Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot la
  and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance...
• I sing New England, as she lights her fire In every Prairie's mid
  and where the bright Enchanting stars shine pure through Southern night, She still is there, the guardian on the tower, To open for the world a purer hour....
• Where there is fear, there is no religion. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
• Religion is a personal matter, and those of us in the sorcerous profession would do well to steer clear of it.
  Still, you will find some situations, say a spell accidentally demolishing someone's holy temple, where you will be given the choice of (1) conversion to their belief, or (2) being sacrificed to their deity....
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
  -- Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) -- Isle of Beauty...
• Religion is a job.
• Beauty is the answer.
• Beauty survives.