Tag: Postcards
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“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” Edgar Allan Poe
“In some Asian societies dating back to ancient times, and in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, fair skin was considered very attractive because it was thought to indicate wealth and high social status, as being tanned meant that one was obligated to work in the fields for one’s livelihood. Similarly, the powdered […]
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Heaven On Earth/Women, the Vote and Mark Twain
“I think it will suggest to more than one man that if women could vote they would vote on the side of morality, even if they did vote and speak rather frantically and furiously; and it will also suggest that when the women once made up their minds that it was not good to have […]