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As the fairest, daintiest natural thing will not brook rough handling or too close and continued examination, the iridescence of the butterfly’s wing, the velvet of the rose petal, so the rare and exquisite essence of womanliness will not bear the heat, the mud, the profanation of the public arena.

— Frank Beaman

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