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"Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn't get enough of them and arrayed them in decorative profusion on the backs and collars and sleeves of coats, where they didn't actually do anything. One relic of this is the short row of pointless buttons that are still placed on the underside of jacket sleeves near the cuff. These have been purely decorative and have never had a purpose, yet 350 years later on we continue to attach them as if they are the most earnest necessity."
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"Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."
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"Which outfits do you get the most compliments on when you are wearing them? What colors make you feel healthy, vibrant, and alive?"
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"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."
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"Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for."
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"I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested."
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"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous."
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"Gentlemen never wear brown in London."
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"Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up."
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"That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know."
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"An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy."
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"There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do."
History
"Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated."
Conversation
"It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively, that was merely an unintended side effect."
Irony
"There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person."
Science
"One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing."
Writing
"A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things."
Technology
"It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own."
Reflection
"Thoreau was an idiot."
Provocation
"Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious."
Biology
"In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available."
Students
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