Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized. - Thomas Hardy

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

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Thomas Hardy OM (June 2 1840 – January 11 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer and poet.

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A profile was visible against the dull monochrome of cloud around her; and it was as though side shadows from the features of Sappho and Mrs. Siddons had converged upwards from the tomb to form an image like neither but suggesting both.
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