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Beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

— Laurence Sterne Sermon XXIV: Pride (1766)

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Source: "Sermon XXIV: Pride" (1766), in The Sermons of Mr. Yorick (New York: J. F. Taylor & Company, 1904), Vol. II, p. 299
Work: Sermon XXIV: Pride, 1766
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