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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Shocking
Enough
Conscious
Formed
Must
Face
Hardly
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Faces
Degree
Amends
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Ugly
Insensible
Woman
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Figure
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Persons
Air
Flattery

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