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“Clothes therefore, must be truly a badge of greatness; the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
“beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“There was an emptiness about the heart of life; an attic room. Women must put off their rich apparel. At midday they must disrobe.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked on to the stage he was fully born.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“It's better to always wear the same thing and know that people are liking you for the real you and not the you your clothes make.” Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day.” Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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