#garment

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. ↗

— Georg Buchner

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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers. ↗

— Herodotus

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No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. ↗

— Akhenaton

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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#child #chilly #feeling #garment #mother

As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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