Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized. ✨ Thoma…

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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, p.360, Thomas Hardy
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