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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Source: Aspects of the Novel, ch. 5, 1927.
-- E M Forster, (Jan 1 1879-1970), English novelist; He wrote of British/Indian and middle class conflicts in A Passage to India, 1924 and A Room With A View, 1908.

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