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

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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Madness
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Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

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Age
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Other Quotes from
Clothing
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Saying yes to the skinny jeans by saying no to the donuts. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)

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Clothing

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. – Elsa Schiaparelli

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There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. – Joseph Addison

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Clothing

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, their buttocks arrogant in tight jeans… – Fay Weldon

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Clothing

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Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. – Pearl Buck

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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. – Mao Zedong

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Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and Ive fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse. – Mary Wesley

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