Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.…

William Shakespeare
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Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. ✨ William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.], p.117
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