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“If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Rhodora.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 97aab1cb4b7fa3ba9839c2a7319ae3033c5d8711e7330cf1cf15b2ad33f04f60
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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