Efficiency Quote by Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.”

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Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

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The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

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