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• The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful -- Frederick Locker-Lampso
• You are almost as ugly as a U.P.S. truck, but it has a nice bumper.
• The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there.
  Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible....
• The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
  -- Friedrich Nietzsche...
• A private sin is not so prejudicial in the world as a public indecency. -- Miguel de Cervante