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"This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like."
"My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times."
"We have the loveliest women in the world in this county and wherever there are beautiful women there will be beautiful clothes. To show the American woman herself off to best advantage-that has always been my aim and that is my real biography."
"Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected."
"Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major."
"If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place."
"When I walk out on the street, I want to see everybody wearing my clothes."
"O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!"
"Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them."
"God sends cold according to clothes."
"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy."
"Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated."
"It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover."
"We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested."
"Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts."
"Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society."
"The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes."
"Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing."
"The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date."
"Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes."
