“If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.”

—  Robert Browning , Men and Women

"Fra Lippo Lippi", line 217.
Men and Women (1855)
Source: The Poems of Robert Browning

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English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889

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