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Ugliness . Love hides ugliness. {Gaelic. Proverb.}
Ugliness . Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force. {Prof. Drummond.}
Ugliness . One man's justice is another man's injustice; one man's beauty, another's ugliness; one man's wisdom, another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point. {Emerson.}
Ugliness . Real ugliness in either sex means always some kind of hardness of heart or vulgarity of education. {Ruskin.}
Ulysses . Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher, but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave Ulysses. {Milton.}
Ulysses . Man, like Ulysses, spends ten years in war and ten in wandering. - Im Leben ist der Mensch zehn Jahre in Kriege {Feuerbach.}
Unbelief . Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favour of a greater. A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief, of large ones. {Holmes.}
Unbelief . Faith opens a way for the understanding; unbelief closes it. {St. Augustine.}
Unbelief . Our torment is unbelief, the uncertainty as to {Emerson.}
Unbelief . Scepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. {Emerson.}
 
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Aeroclub : n. A club or association of persons interested in aeronautics.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev.James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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