Quote#Beauty
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice,…
Quote byMark Twain · 1835–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: On the Decay of the Art of Lying, published in The Stolen White Elephant: Etc, Pages 220-221 (1882).
English (original)
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
— Mark Twain
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