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Thomas More, Utopia Quotes: 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.


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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.
         



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