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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein,
But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,
And read more
O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein,
But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,
And heightens ease with grace.
Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German
Ambassador: "If they want to see me, read more
When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German
Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to
see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits."
He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman,
laughs at the ratling of his read more
He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman,
laughs at the ratling of his fetters. For indeed, Clothes ought
to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency.
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the
trimmings of the vain.
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the
trimmings of the vain.
Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back
Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course
Yea, rags read more
Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back
Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course
Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.
When this old cap was new
'Tis since two hundred years.
When this old cap was new
'Tis since two hundred years.
