Great is the strife between beauty and modesty. - Ovid

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Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.

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Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

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