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Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their read more
Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their families. "Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire," as Poor Richard says.
Clothes don't make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.
Clothes don't make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.
There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon read more
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel read more
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.