Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
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Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
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