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"I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes."
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"The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder."
Life
"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
Ambition
"They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind."
Hope
"Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."
People
"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures."
God
"Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it."
Love
"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."
Success
"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
Mistake
"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit."
Marriage
"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel."
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"Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress."
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"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
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"Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress."
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"Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man."
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"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."
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"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."
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"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
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"There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her."
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"I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning."
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"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"
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