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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Girl

A girl is like a flower fresh gathered; but a guilty woman is a flower trodden under foot.
—Honoré de Balzac

The presence of a young girl is like the presence of a flower, the one gives its perfume to all that approach it, the other her grace to all that surround her.
—Louis Desnoyers