A great beautiful thing is a manner of expression scarcely ever used; but that of a great ugly thing is very common.
 Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). copy citation

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Author Edmund Burke
Source A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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Date 1757
Language English
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