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A lady’s dress should be such as to please God, not laying aside taste, for is He not much more pleased when His children look well than otherwise? I have no idea that Christ was negligent of his dress. His garment was one counted worthy of casting lots upon.

A lady’s dress should be such as to please God, not laying aside taste, for is He not much more pleased when His children look well than otherwise? I have no idea that Christ was negligent of his dress. His garment was one counted worthy of casting lots upon.

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Mary Lyon
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Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)

Complete signed selection 208; printed byline: Mary Lyon; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

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