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If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - read more
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.
A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.
A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
