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Healthy bodies, enjoying
a good circulation and strengthened by exercise,
acquire grace from the same source that gives them
strength, for they have a healthy complexion, firm
flesh and shapely thews. But, on the other hand,
the man who attempts to enhance these physical
graces by the effeminate use of depilatories and cosmetics, succeeds merely in defacing them by the
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very care which he bestows on them.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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