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Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize, Not all that glisters gold.

Gloomy as night he stands.

Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

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.

A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.

The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

Style is the image of character.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.