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Reddening One’s Face, Blackening Another’s

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 9, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 34.

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Reddening One’s Face, Blackening Another’s

By William C. Grainger

Dr. Johnson once silenced a notorious female backbiter, who was condemning some of her friends for painting their cheeks, by the remark that "it is a far less harmful thing for a lady to redden her own complexion than to blacken her neighbor's."