I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady w

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims

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