"Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty."
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"All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?"
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"Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments."
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"A lot of people went underground with their spiritual life in the seventies, but they're out there in little nooks and crannies and in the countryside, people who look and dress straight, insurance salesmen types, but they're really meditators and chanters, closet devotees."
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"I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses."
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"I never dress to shock."
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"I have never been a fashionista or someone who puts a lot of thought into what I wear, and I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can."
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"Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect."
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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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"A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?"
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"...you don't care because you're all that and I'm just an artery in a dress."
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"He was also handsome in a too-pretty way that made me think with less muscles, a wig, and some makeup, he'd look great in a dress. Vlad's scowl vanished into a smile as the brunet's gaze swung in my direction as though he'd somehow heard that. "Looks as though she's put you in your place as well, Bones," Vlad drawled."
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"I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress."
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"Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked."
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"As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime."
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"I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress."
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"The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness."
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"In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness."
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"And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts."
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