Quote by Herman Melville
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing fort

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden – what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! – Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

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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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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? – Roland Barthes

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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. – Virginia Woolf

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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. – Christopher Morley

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