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“Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. iv. 20.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fd9933f18298d1ab0886ad16158bcb86ddb2d6135bf39a4fd6c67691123a0a66
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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