The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. Jane Austen
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After having read of the advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl, I had no doubt but that the fair sex would be unanimous on the question whether it was not one of their greatest charms. But to my astonishment I found on turning over the pages of every book on the subject, that though there were many who confessed to having been seduced by weakness or ignorance, there were none who had invented any means of precluding either of these causes from any future occasions. The idea seemed to have occurred to no one, that by some proper precautions it might be prevented from being a source of temptation in future.

Source: Northanger Abbey

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