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"The one thing that has remained constant for the perfect man? A full head of hair. Men have fretted over losing their hair since the beginning of time."
"In Looking Good, the author quotes Arabian Nights where a woman says, " Is there anything more ugly in the world than a man bald and beardless as an artichoke?" According to the book, Julius Caesar sported his signature crown mostly to hide his disappearing hairline. In ancient Rome, according to the Getty blog, baldness was associated with wisdom and many philosophers were shown as bald, but everybody else did whatever they could to hide diminishing hair. Men would dye their grays and were very emotionally attached to their hair. Emperor Domitian said of hair, "Be assured that nothing is more pleasing, but nothing shorter-lived." That guy was an emperor and was still super sad about going bald."
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"In Looking Good, the author quotes Arabian Nights where a woman says, " Is there anything more ugly in the world than a man bald and beardless as an artichoke?" According to the book, Julius Caesar sported his signature crown mostly to hide his disappearing hairline. In ancient Rome, according to the Getty blog, baldness was associated with wisdom and many philosophers were shown as bald, but everybody else did whatever they could to hide diminishing hair. Men would dye their grays and were very emotionally attached to their hair. Emperor Domitian said of hair, "Be assured that nothing is more pleasing, but nothing shorter-lived." That guy was an emperor and was still super sad about going bald."
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