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Perfectly beautiful: let it be granted her: where is the fault?

Quote byAlfred Tennyson · 1809–1892

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Maud; A Monodrama (1855), Part I, section ii.

English (original)

Perfectly beautiful: let it be granted her: where is the fault? All that I saw (for her eyes were downcast, not to be seen) Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more.

— Alfred Tennyson

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