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What's a fine person, or a beauteous face, Unless deportment gives them decent grace? Blessed with all other requisites to please, Some want the striking elegance of ease; The curious eye their awkward movement tires: They seem like puppets led about by wires.
What's a fine person, or a beauteous face, Unless deportment gives them decent grace? Blessed with all other requisites to please, Some want the striking elegance of ease; The curious eye their awkward movement tires: They seem like puppets led about by wires.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 53 · quotation 14 · Churchill · Rosciad. L. 741.
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