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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Thomas Hardy
Tess Of The D Urbervilles, Lays
Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.360, Thomas Hardy
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.