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The Lion and The Mouse

CHAPTER IV
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Perfect in its outlines and coloring, it is a delight to gaze upon, just as is a flawless piece of sculpture, yet the delight is only fleeting.

One soon grows satiated, no matter how beautiful the face may be, because it is always the same, expressionless and soulless.

"Beauty is only skin deep," said the philosopher, and no truer dictum was ever uttered.

The merely beautiful woman, who possesses only beauty and nothing else, is kept so busy thinking of her looks, and is so anxious to observe the impression her beauty makes on others, that she has neither the time nor the inclination for matters of greater importance.

Sensible men, as a rule, do not lose their hearts to women whose only assets are their good looks.
They enjoy a flirtation with them, but seldom care to make them their wives.


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