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“Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Cato. Act i. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 36c730606d3b9b0484e902fc18881f3ae5ed30ce5a2a96ab947883db838cb987
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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