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A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in read more
A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try read more
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - read more
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain read more
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of read more
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
