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"Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known."
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"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."

"You can transform your entire physical appearance, personal experience, energy, and social success simply by smiling. And it is also good to do just for you!"

"If you have a good sense of dressing, there wouldn't be any need to spend a fortune to look good."

"For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms."

"Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs, some wear one to conceal their age."

"Color is one of the most important and distinctive elements in enhancing your image. Wearing the colors which are best matched to your personality, energy, skin tone, hair color, and body type will make you look healthier, more vibrant, confident, successful, and approachable."

"A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired."

"Few places are more important for dressing appropriately than the workplace, where a professional appearance is crucial."

"You guys are so... dark. Even if I used flash, I'm not sure it would come out.""Y-yeah," Percy managed. "You guys aren't photogenic."

"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
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"If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery."

"That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen."

"People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society."

"Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known."
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