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Tout est beau sans chandelles. “La nuit tous les chats sont gris.”
Beauty is but skin deep.
“O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori.”
Virgil, Bucolics, ii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.