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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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. – Jane Austen

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. – Jane Austen

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I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. – Lin Yutang

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When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath. – August Strindberg

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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off. – Jean Cocteau

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Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. – Will Rogers

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