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• When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of contempt, "This is all arrogance." Afterwards some Lacedemonians came in his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. "This," said he, "is also arrogance.

  Claudius Aelianus

  Mean, Arrogance, Dresses

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• We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society.

  Nur Muhammad Taraki

  Good Life, Want, Handsome

  "Taraki: 'A New World, A New Man, And A New Society'". Executive Intelligence Review Vol. 5, No. 30, www.larouchepub.com. September 12, 1978.

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• Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Fashion, Ideas, Gentleman

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 115), 1886.

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• You've got to have the right attire for the right event. I attend a lot of dinners, a lot of concerts, and I have to be on the red carpet; each has its own dress code, and I have to be prepared. Jeans and a hoodie are great for a concert, but a dinner party?

  Amar'e Stoudemire

  Party, Jeans, Events

  "A New (Six-Foot-Ten) New Yorker Takes on Fashion Week" by Josh Peskowitz, www.esquire.com. September 9, 2010.

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• ... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Attitude, Weakness

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• There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Quality, Becoming, Virtue

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• You work side is for everybody. When you're at home, you're not wearing heels and your work attire.

  Carrie Underwood

  Home, Sides, Heels

  Source: collider.com

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• Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians.

  William Prynne

  Christian, Song, Kissing

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• Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Quality, Vices, Ornaments

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2046, e-artnow

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• I really like The Dudleyz' new attire. It has that whole Bushwhackers 2000 feel.

  Edge

  Wwe, Feels, Whole

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• Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear,
  by which I mean pajamas.

  Holland Cotter

  Mean, Evening, Pajamas

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• Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Underwear, Solemn, Audacious

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.28, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!

  George Herbert

  Men, Sight, Clothes

  George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.132

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• Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

  John Donne

  Men, Doubt, Phrases

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.462

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• Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Holiday, Nymphs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

  Ellen G. White

  Children, Husband, Crow

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• It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Men, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2008). “Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)”, p.196, Mondial

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• Think about it. These guys have far more reasons to pull a prank on Doug than they do me. I kind of wished we had changed clothes, though.' 'There wasn't time,' Katie said. 'Your true love is in desperate need of your assistance. How can you think of changing into the appropriate attire for a rescue?

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Love Is, Thinking, Clothes

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• Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Gay, Blow

  William Wordsworth (1852). “Complete Poetical Works”, p.419

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• The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Father, Luxury, Arrogance

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• When May, with cowslip-braided locks,
  Walks through the land in green attire.
  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox
  His torch of purple fire:
  And when the punctual May arrives,
  With cowslip-garland on her brow,
  We know what once she gave our lives,
  And cannot give us now!

  Bayard Taylor

  Fire, Land, Purple

  Bayard Taylor (1883). “The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor”

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• Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

  George W. Crane

  Inspirational, Life, Language

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• I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it. In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire). When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.

  Akbar Ganji

  Islamic, Rights, Views

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• I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

  Lady Gaga

  Music, I Hate You, Band

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Oct 20, 2010

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• You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door.

  Chris Murray

  Believe, Boys, Doors

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