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Beauty passes, but perfection remains with us. — Turkish
Beauty provokes thieves sooner than gold. — English
Beauty cannot be by force. — Turkish
Beauty will buy no beef. — English
Beauty will not make the pot boil. — Irish
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Beauty will not season your soup. — Polish
Beauty and folly are often companions. — French
Beauty will sit and weep, fortune will sit and eat. — Indian (Tamil)
Beauty is the seasoning of virtue. — Polish
Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust. — Russian
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Beauty is only skin deep. — American
Beautiful people are short lived. — Korean
Beautiful or not, it is my native land. — Chinese
He who marries a real beauty is seeking trouble. — Ghanaian
One can neither put beauty into the pot, nor loveliness into the kettle. — Estonian
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Personal beauty does not pay a debt. — African (Ashanti)
Sweet beauty with sour beggary. — English
Tell a woman she's a beauty, and the devil will tell her so ten times. — English
The beauty of a loan is repayment. — Russian
The beauty of a chaste woman makes bitter words. — Irish
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The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams. — Flemish
The beauty of the man is his intelligence, and the intelligence of the woman is in her beauty. — African (Morocco)
The beauty of the corn cob is apparent in the inside only. — African (Swahili)
There is no beauty but the beauty of action. — African (Morocco)
You are beautiful; but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty. — African (Cameroon)
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