Mark Twain Quotes About Fashion
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...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.
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Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.
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Modesty died when clothes were born.
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