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If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales.
There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales.
We understood
Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so read more
We understood
Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought
That one might almost say her body thought.
- Dr. John Donne,
A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in read more
A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by read more
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain read more
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a read more
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.