William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity fair (№ 207735)

"It is colorless and lifeless. What's really special about pink cheeks and blue eyes?" - ask our cute morality and wisely implying that natural talent, perfection of the mind, the mastery of the "Questions" miss Mennel, lady's knowledge of botany and Geology, the art of stechapelle, the ability to rattle off of the Sonata in the spirit of gerzofsky and the like are for females much more valuable qualities than those fleeting pleasures, which in a short period of time will inevitably fade. To listen to the arguments women of the insignificance and frailty of beauty - a thing very enlightening. But although much taller and unfortunate creatures, who, to his misfortune, endowed with beauty, one must always remember awaiting their fate, and though very likely the heroic female character, which is so admired by women, the object of a more glorious and dignified than cute, fresh, smiling, bezsmertna tender little domestic goddess, which is willing to worship men.