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  • Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

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    "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 161), 1948.
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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil. - Democritus
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