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— Friedrich Nietzsche"Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality."
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To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
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