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If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind; if, on the other hand, she is disagreeable in person and character, her plainness is commonly inveighed against as her greatest crime, because, to common observers, it gives the greatest offence;
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We are naturally disposed to love what gives us pleasure, and what more pleasing than a beautiful face - when we know no harm of the possessor at least? Alittle girl loves her bird - Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes
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