"Pretty is as pretty does" nghĩa là gì?

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"Pretty is as pretty does" -> nghĩa là biết đối nhân xử thế quan trọng hơn so với vẻ bề ngoài vì ngoại hình đẹp không có nghĩa là con người bên trong cũng tốt đẹp; 'cái nết đánh chết cái đẹp'.

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I think we can also agree that horses are beautiful animals and yet when they are covered in enough equipment to be a walking billboard for Big’s D Catalog, some of the natural equine beauty is lost. Again, the purpose of racing is to win. I’d rather have a horse covered in equipment win a race than one that wears practically nothing and finishes 11 lengths up the track. Pretty is as pretty does.

A 19th-century poet’s endorsement (sự xác nhận, tán thành) notwithstanding, Mark Gormel, horticultural coordinator at the Brandywine Conservancy, and other plant specialists around the country wouldn’t mind if this particular buttercup, known more properly as the lesser celandine, disappeared — like yesterday. “Pretty is, as pretty does,” he said this week. “It’s not exactly pretty.” It’s a dangerous import, a master conqueror, rapidly spreading and effectively smothering competitors, garden experts warn. Conservancy founder George Weymouth famously painted the bluebells (cây hoa chuông lá tròn) on his property; the buttercups are blamed for suffocating them.

Kitty will also be remembered as a nurturer, holiday-keeper (she kept Christmas well), gardener, enforcer, nurse, bookkeeper, and family band leader. She never forgot a birthday, and there was always a homemade cake. She was fiercely protective of her children, and Kitty passed along advice on jobs, relationships, even fashion choices. When necessary, she wasn’t afraid to speak hard truths. But it was her sweetness that everyone remembers. Among her sayings was “Pretty is as pretty does,” a reminder that how you treat others speaks volumes. Lillian Christine Jones grew up in the Eason’s Crossroads section of Gatesville, the third of four children of Riddick and Lillian (Hayes) Jones. She got the nickname Kitty, the story goes, when a brother took one look at her in the crib and decided she resembled a cat.

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