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Cleanliness: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.— BACON — Advancement of Learning. Bk.. II.

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!— CHARLES LAMB — Lamb's Suppers. Vol. II. Last Chapter.

I'll purge and leave sack and live cleanly. Henry IV. Pt. 1. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 168. Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-winged reapers come.— HENRY VAUGHAN — The Seed Growing

Secretly. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."— JOHN WESLEY — Sermon XCII.