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Clothes Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.
- It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
- Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the…
- Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
- The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The…
- The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
- Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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