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Arthur Helps

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Arthur Helps

Beauty

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Arthur Helps is saying that qualities like self-control, honesty, modesty, kindness, and inner peace enhance a person's appearance more than any makeup can. He believes that genuine beauty shows through a person's face only when these virtues are clearly reflected there.

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