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| 2 | 270 | The View more quotes about markets">markets, of course, sort out the beauty of women, on a monetary scale, according to what men are willing to pay for it. |
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| 2 | 267 | Fashions, too, can change, for example, in the color of grasses favored in pleasure gardens, the hair and eye color of its slaves, and so on. |
| 2 | 268 | In any event, Miss Pym was under no delusion as to her own attractiveness. |
| 2 | 269 | Indeed, she probably overestimated it, somewhat, as she had never had any experience of the relevant markets, nor any understanding of how her beauty might rank with that of others, many of them doubtless her superiors. |
| 2 | 270 | The markets, of course, sort out the beauty of women, on a monetary scale, according to what men are willing to pay for it. |
| 2 | 271 | But, as of now, perhaps in her vanity, and surely quite complacently, Miss Pym regarded herself not only as an extraordinarily beautiful woman, but, indeed, quite possibly, as the most beautiful woman she had ever seen. |
| 2 | 272 | And we must admit, certainly given the women she had seen, who were numerous, of course, there was some justification for this view. |
| 2 | 273 | Certainly she had found it confirmed in her mirror. |