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“Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5e7880be4935bc69632b54326d3d183ddb4db735fe00d53f5f8096e00da5abcc
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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