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I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beautiful, Stars, Eye
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.112
I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.