To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“She watched the glass, a plain woman, changing all to the delightful illusion of beauty. There was still time: for her ugliness… — Brian Moore Copy Share Image
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy:… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth. — Plato Copy Share Image
If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
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