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STANDARDS_OF_BEAUTY


                                             June 5, 2010


       "When you speak of beautiful things,
       such as bodies, colours, figures,
       sounds, institutions, do you not call
       them beautiful in reference to some             NATURE_OF_THE_WALLS
       standard: bodies, for example, are
       beautiful in proportion as they are
       useful, or as the sight of them gives
       pleasure to the spectators; can you give
       any other account of personal beauty?"

            -- Socrates in Plato's "Gorgias"




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