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Outward beauty is not enough, and the woman who
would appear fair must not be content with any common manner. Words, wit, play,
sweet talk and laughter, surpass the work of too simple nature. For all expense of
art seasons beauty, and naked loveliness is wasted all in vain, if it have not the
will to please.
Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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