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Hairdressing and Beauty

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Hairdressing and Beauty at UM

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: physical education, tourism, services
University website: www.um.edu.mt/

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Beauty
Beauty is a characteristic of an animal, idea, object, person or place that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, culture, social psychology, philosophy and sociology. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection.
Beauty
Tell me, shepherds, have you seen
My Flora pass this way?
In shape and feature Beauty's queen,
In pastoral array.
The Wreath, from The Lyre, Volume III, p. 27. (Ed. 1824). First lines also in a song by Dr. Samuel Howard.
Beauty
Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
Beauty
Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.
Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary.
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