Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think i…

Saint Augustine
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. ✨ Confessions by Saint Augustine, Book XV, (22), (c. 397).
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