It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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The tragedy of our time is that we are so eye centered, so appearance besotted.
Jessamyn West Simple Abundance
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No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
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Appearances aren't everything.
American proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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