When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. – St. Gregory The Great

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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. – John Lyly

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Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word. – Thomas Haynes Bayly

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