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"Accept only as much 'cleanliness' that it won't cause you to worry if it became dirty. Maintain 'cleanliness' such that and only to the point that it does not burden you into bondage."

"Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse."

"Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely."

"Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?"

"But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing."

"You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands."

"We have successfully achieved the target of building toilets in schools"

"I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house."
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"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue."

"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."

"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash."

"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."

"On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser."
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