As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Beauty
Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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