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- The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy:… — Robert Hooke
- [In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat
- It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare… — David Hume
- One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right… — Murasaki Shikibu
- It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most… — John B. S. Haldane
- Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant. — Elizabeth Gaskell
- If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to… — Saint Francis de Sales