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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
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Must
Face
Hardly
Make
Faces
Degree
Amends
Upon
Ugly
Insensible
Woman
Degrees
Ample
Nature
Figure
Trusts
Persons
Air
Flattery
Person
Figures
Shocking
Enough
Conscious
Formed

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