I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who
declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of
inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
from Frank Baer, 175 anonymous one-liners:

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