#pageant

If she had anything to say about it, the pageant would be called off and the dignity of Sweet Valley womanhood would be preserved. The truth was, no one seemed to care as much about the beauty pageant issue as she did. ↗

— Francine Pascal

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#sweet-valley #beauty

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

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#history #pageant #philosophy