"Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle."
— Admiration

January 1, 1970

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George Lyttleton, Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).