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Quotation from Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
“you have preferred virtue before either wit or beauty, and deserve to find a person in whom all these qualifications are united”
Beauty and the Beast, The fairy's judgment, trans. Anonymous English chapbook version
The fairy explains Beauty's reward after the Beast becomes a prince.
Citation: "you have preferred virtue before either wit or beauty, and deserve to find a person in whom all these qualifications are united" — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Beauty and the Beast, The fairy's judgment, trans. Anonymous English chapbook version. (id beaumont-beauty-and-the-beast-q4)
Portrait: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Unidentified painter, Public domain.
