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For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.
For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.
Approximate author period: c. 1506 AD · renaissance
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- Thomas More
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- Approximate author period: c. 1506 AD · renaissance
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Thomas More, based on documented lifetime 1478 to 1535. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42544 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42544 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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