Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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- In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
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