“Faith goes out of the window when beauty comes in at the door.”

—  George Moore (novelist)

The Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11304/11304-8.txt (1905) [Appleton, 2005, digitized edition], ch. IX (p. 169).

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Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoi… 1852–1933

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