"Nature like a kind and smiling mother lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
~ Victor Hugo ~












Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue ...
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