Beauty Quote by William Shakespeare

Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

— William Shakespeare

“...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.”

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