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Quote by Quentin Bell
Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be en

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul. – Quentin Bell

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