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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]

God loveth the clean.

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."