It's like the old question, "Do you lock your house to keep people out, or to protect what's inside?" Should a person act modestly and dress modestly in order to prevent intrusion from the outside, undesirable things from happening, or to preserve and maintain what...
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Manis Friedman
Don't allow yourself to get into the habit of dressing carelessly when there is 'only' your husband to see you. Depend upon it he has no use for faded tea-gowns and badly dressed hair, and he abhors the sight of curling pins as much as...
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Blanche Ebbutt
Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Dress for the position you want, not the position you have.
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Santosh Inani
A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong generalresemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.
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Charles Dickens
More Quotes By Sebastien Chamfort
Society is composed of two great classes-- those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
If a woman were about to proceed to her execution she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
The public! the public! How many fools does it take to make up a public?
