"Charm appertains to the essence of the person or thing endowed with it. It cannot be acquired, it cannot be got rid of, and its results are produced without effort, since the person who has it cannot help producing them."
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Alfred Austin, The Garden That I Love: Second Series (London: Macmillan and Co., 1907), pp. 32β33.
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