She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.

Jean Hanff Korelitz
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Money, good health, good clothes are all superficial. Money can be replaced easily. You can have good health or good clothes if you have the money to buy them. She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.

What she had was her inner beauty. The fault was not in the things she lacked but in herself. She got up every morning and did what she could to make herself better.

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