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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:269
AUTHOR:Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
QUOTATION:For all that faire is, is by nature good; 1
That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
ATTRIBUTION:An Hymne in Honour of Beautie. Line 139.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.—William Shakespeare: Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1. [back]
 

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