The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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En fait de parure il faut toujours rester au dessous de ce qu'on peut. In the matter of dress it is well always to keep within one's means.— MONTESQUIEU — Pensées Diverses.
L'habit ne fait le moine. The dress does not make the monk.— RABELAIS — Prologue. I.
Che quant' era più ornata, era più brutta. Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.— ARIOSTO — Orlando Furioso. XX. 116.
La ropa no da ciencia. Dress does not give knowledge.— YRIARTE — Fables. XXVII.
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