Beauty is only skin deep
beauty is only skin deep
physical beauty is superficial and is not as important as a person’s intellectual, emotional, and spiritual qualities.
external attractiveness has no relation to goodness or essential quality. this maxim was first stated by sir thomas overbury in his poem “a wife” (1613): “all the carnall beauty of my wife is but skin-deep.“
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