(1)We call anything beautiful that gives us pleasure and depends as much on ourselves as on what is outside us. (2) Perhaps most people find the sea beautiful when it is blue. (3) If someone has lived in Italy as a child and has to live beside the grey northern seas when he is grown up, he will think that the grey seas are ugly and that nothing can be as beautiful as the blue Mediterranean. (3) But suppose a Scotsman who loves Scotland has to go and live in Italy. (4) He might find the blue sea after a little while very uninteresting. (5) Only when he went home and saw the grey sea again would he find the sea beautiful. (6) We are made in different ways, and grey may be just as beautiful as blue, just as a baby's cry may be found sweeter in someone's ears than the finest note of the finest singer that ever lived. (7) Nothing is beautiful or ugly, but thinking makes it so.

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