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Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Samuel Johnson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1709–1784)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 32 · quotation 14 · Samuel Johnson · Boswell's Life. (1776)
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