| Clothes make the man. Naked people have
little or no influence in society. - quoted in More Maxims of Mark, Merle Johnson, 1927
Modesty died when clothes were born. |
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| A policeman in plain clothes is a man;
in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the
most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing
and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop,
the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king,
the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it. - "The Czar's Soliloquy" |
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| Strip the human race, absolutely naked,
and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of
tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning
of a monarchy. - Mark Twain's Notebook |
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We must put up with our clothes as they are -- they have their reason
for existing. They are on us to expose us -- to advertise what we wear
them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed
vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony
and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.
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