Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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