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Karl Philipp Moritz

"It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are."

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"I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded."
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"I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight."
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"It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are."
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