A handsome shoe often pinches the foot. – French proverb
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. – French Proverb
A handsome shoe often pinches the foot. – French proverb
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. – French Proverb
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