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“What multitudes of young women waste all that is precious in life on the finified fooleries of the toilet.”

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.

“Now some of the latter expecting his coming, dressed the pages in women's clothes, and finified them like any babies; then ordered them to meet my lord at his coming near the drawbridge.”

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4

“Now some of the latter expecting his coming, dressed the pages in women’s clothes, and finified them like any babies; then ordered them to meet my lord at his coming near the drawbridge.”

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel