The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was righ…

Dennis Lehane
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The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.
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