"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
— Edmund Burke

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Actually by Stendhal: "La beauté n'est que la promesse du bonheur" (Beauty is no more than the promise of happiness), in De L'Amour (1822), chapter 17