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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
Beauty
Intoxicates
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Wine
Worse
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