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Amongst chief deformities I reckon forced and artificial beauties: Hem… — Essays

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Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Amongst chief deformities I reckon forced and artificial beauties: Hemon, a young boy of Chios, thinking by fine dressing to acquire the beauty that nature had denied him, came to the philosopher Arcesilaus and asked him if it was possible for a wise man to be in love--"Yes," replied he, "provided it be not with a farded and adulterated beauty like thine."

الموضع: CHAPTER V. · ¶4268
الترخيص: Public domain · المصدر
النص كما ورد في الطبعة دون تعديل.

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