"If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, to please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act."
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) "The Divine Comedy: Purgatory" cto. 27, l. 100-8 (Penguin Classics, 1985) translated by Mark Musa
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