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Fine clothes are...

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Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

Source: Life of Johnson. (J. Boswell), Vol. II
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.


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