Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God."
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Cleanliness
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Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"God loveth the clean."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Cleanliness is next to fordliness."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself."
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"Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion."
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"For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves."
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"It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness."
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"All will come out in the washing."
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"Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground."
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"In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance."
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"Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood."
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"He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith."
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"A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean."
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"I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness."
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"I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do."
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"The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness."
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"One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless."
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