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“Virtue is like a rich stone,--best plain set.”
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- Source:
- Of Beauty.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a88769dedd58ab75434cec74cc60d0b302dbe837d0817cfaf293393e619a01fe
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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