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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

— Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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  4. Jesus died to save men -- a small thing for an immortal to do, & didn't save many, anyway; but if he had been damned for the race that woul…
  5. You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.
  6. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
  7. The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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Topics in this quote

  • society
  • communication
  • influence
  • appearance
  • fashion
  • status

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