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There is no excellent beauty that hath…

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# · Not So Good (26 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998) · one comment

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon, in Happiness and Misery

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Edit CommentSome Strangeness in the Proportion · posted 2002 by Booch

I was surprised to find this linked to Francis Bacon, but given the "strange proportions" of the phrasing, I guess that I should not have been. Previous to this, I had always associated the second half of this aphorism with Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.