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Of course, clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal. George Horace Lorimer.

No matter how a man may dress,
'Tis not his clothes that make him;
Indeed, the swells themselves confess
More often 'tis they break him.

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Women despise a man wno gives much thought to clothes, yet, on the other hand, they wish him to be well set-up, neat, wholesome, trim, and well-groomed, as every man should be, not as a matter of conscious effort, but, by an instinctive sense of fitness and good taste. Women will pardon slovenliness in a genius, but they will never like it; and in one who is not a genius, they will very justly infer from it the presence of something louche in habits or in character.

Harry Thurston Peck.

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There are no inclinations in women which more surprise me than their passions for chalk and china. The first of these maladies wears out in a little time; but, when a woman is visited with the second, it generally takes possession of her for life. China vessels are playthings for women of all ages. An old lady of four-score shall be as busy in cleaning an Indian mandarin as her great-granddaughter is in dressing her baby. Joseph Addison.

The bicycle ... is the true and only Woman's emancipator. What sisterhoods have been shrieking for, what people have been agitating, lecturing, and wrangling over for three-parts of a century, was suddenly and quietly accomplished by the first turn of the first lady's safety-wheel-that freed a whole sex.

Maxwell Gray.

There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is that they forget it is growing. The second is that they like it. The third is that it comes cheaper: they wear it long for the same reason that they wear their hats long. Israel Zangwill.

Three things a wise man will not trust:
The wind, the sunshine of an April day,
And woman's plighted faith.

Robert Southey.

How strangely men act! They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity by those whom they have never seen, nor will ever see, this they set much value on.

Antoninus.

A man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato-the only good belonging to him is underground.

Sir Thomas Overbury.

In little duties women find their spheres
The narrow cares that cluster round the hearth.
R. H. Stoddard.

Whatever has gone wrong with women in the world is man's fault. If she has been kept down; if she has been too much exalted; if she has been taught too much or too little, has got out of her proper sphere, or missed her due development, because the sphere accorded her was too narrow-it is all man's fault, and he must expect to settle for it.

E. S. Martin.

"They talk about a 'woman's sphere'

As though it has a limit;

There's not a spot on sea or shore,
In sanctum, office, shop or store,
Without a woman in it."

The endless discussions of woman's "sphere" have produced a hampering self-consciousness. Women have been drawn into discussing their work instead of doing it.

Selected.

Does there not exist inside of every man a certain big, ferocious-looking faculty who is his drum-majorloving to strut at the head of a peaceful parade and twirl his bawble and roll his eyes at the children and scowl back at the quiet, intrepid fellows behind as though they were his personal prisoners? Let but a skirmish threaten, and our dear, ferocious, fat major!-not even in the rear-not even on the field! James Lane Allen.

There are men whom no one respects very highly, who are not sincerely trusted, whose honour is not spotless, and whose ways are far from straight, but who nevertheless hold a certain ascendency over others by mere show and assurance.

F. Marion Crawford.

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