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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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen

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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them. – Jane Austen

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A nudist is simply a human being without artificial additives. – Author Unknown

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I want to die with my blue jeans on. – Andy Warhol

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On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary. – Scott Adams, "Dilbert"

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The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle

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