George Eliot Quotes

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

George Eliot

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• Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

  

  George Eliot
  • Beauty
  • Temptations
  • Plainness