Quote by John Ruskin
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. – John Ruskin

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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. – John Ruskin

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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. – John Ruskin

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Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible. – James Laver, Style in Costume

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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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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. – Oscar Wilde

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Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? – P.G. Wodehouse

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After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it The Amazing Professor. The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D. – Source Unknown

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