The 18th-century British philosopher David Hume said "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty."
With time, this became condensed into today's familiar soundbite: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
But is it?
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