Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Che quant' era più ornata, era più brutta.

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Compare | Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best. | Phineas Fletcher, Sicelides (1614), Act II, scene iv | In naked beauty more adorned, More lovely than Pandora. | John Milton, Paradise Lost (1674), Book IV, line 713 | For Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. | James Thomson, The Seasons, "Autumn" (1730), line 204

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