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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal, has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal. - Ellen Glasgow
Attribution: Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945), U.S. novelist. The Woman Within, ch. 21 (1954). Written in 1937.

Categories: Beauty, Human Nature, Mediocrity

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