Quote by Jane Austen
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solic

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. – Jane Austen

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen

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She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies. – Mavis Gallant

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His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor. – Philip Dormer Stanhope

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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. – Philip Dormer Stanhope

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A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private. – Elizabeth Wilson

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