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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Beauty

Tout est beau sans chandelles. “La nuit tous les chats sont gris.” Beauty is but skin deep.

“O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori.”

Virgil, Bucolics,
ii.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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