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“An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot ... be controverted.”
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A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams;
And all day long I look
Upon this ladys beauty
As though I had found in a book”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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