Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty canno…

Joseph Addison
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Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. ✨ Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index, p.402
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