“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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