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Quotation from Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
“it is neither wit nor a fine person in a husband, that makes a woman happy; but virtue, sweetness of temper, and complaisance: and Beast has all these valuable qualifications.”
Beauty and the Beast, Beauty's dream at her father's house, trans. Anonymous English chapbook version
Waking from her dream of the dying Beast, Beauty compares him with her sisters' husbands and resolves to return.
Citation: "it is neither wit nor a fine person in a husband, that makes a woman happy; but virtue, sweetness of temper, and complaisance: and Beast has all these valuable qualifications." — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Beauty and the Beast, Beauty's dream at her father's house, trans. Anonymous English chapbook version. (id beaumont-beauty-and-the-beast-q3)
Portrait: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Unidentified painter, Public domain.
