“He could see naught but vanity in beauty
And naught but weakness in a fond caress
And pitied men whose views of Christian duty
Allowed indulgence in such foolishness.”

Daniel Gray, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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