The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)
“Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.”
Mary Barton, ch. 3 (1848)
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“A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.”

Variant: But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets too close to her,
the pins stick further in.
Source: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories