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The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.
George Grenville
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George Grenville
Age: 58 †
Born: 1712
Born: October 14
Died: 1770
Died: November 13
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