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A woman's natural quality is to attract, and having attracted to enchain; and how influential she may be for good or evil, the history of every age makes clear. - [Attractiveness] After all, what is vanity? If it means only a certain wish to look one's best, is it not another name for self-respect? If it means inordinate self-admiration (very rare among persons with some occupation), it is less wicked than absurd. - [Vanity] [George Herbert] a conspicuous example of plain living and high thinking. - Sermon on George Herbert, in "Evenings for the People" [Life]
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