Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
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