the world's astonished eyes

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'I'm clever, handsome, gracefully polite;
My waist is small, my teeth are strong and white;
As for my dress, the world's astonished eyes
Assure me that I bear away the prize.'

'Moli're, spoken by Acaste in The Misanthrope, translated by Richard Wilder, 1965.

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