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Quotation from Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
“there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as your are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.”
Beauty and the Beast, The first supper with the Beast, trans. Anonymous English chapbook version
When the Beast says that his heart is good but he is still a monster, Beauty answers that many people deserve the name more than he does. The chapbook's misprint is kept.
Citation: "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as your are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart." — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Beauty and the Beast, The first supper with the Beast, trans. Anonymous English chapbook version. (id beaumont-beauty-and-the-beast-q2)
Portrait: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Unidentified painter, Public domain.
