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“beauty is often very relative, just as what is decent in Japan is indecent in Rome, and what is fashionable in Paris, is not fashionable in Pekin; and he saved himself the trouble of composing a long treatise on beauty.”
― Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

“It needs twenty years to lead man from the plant state in which he is within his mother's womb, and the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of the reason begins to appear. It has needed thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”
― Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

“Bashkirs.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“ad infinitum, and”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream