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“Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare.”
Provenance
- Source:
- All Fools. Act i. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 86a5c4191f29c4ab45fbb3247eb68104621248e59086059752738cbf608228d8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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