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“Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.”

Art Literature Fashion Dresses Vogue Jurisprudence Literature And Art

Book:The Nature of the Judicial Process

Source: The Nature of the Judicial Process

“Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Form Spirit Literature Pleasure Cases Example Expression Letters Originals Dresses Critical Substance New Ideas Deprived Cliche Commonplace Often Is

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.”

Literature Aim Dresses All Time Distinction Frivolous Solicitude

Book:The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works

Source: The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works

“I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.”

“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”

Literature Nature Fashion Dresses Variables

Book:The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes

Source: The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes

“Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.”

Ifs Soul Literature Dresses Careless Cleanliness Tidy Neat And Tidy

Author:Mark Twain

“My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.”

Needs Reason Literature Dresses Profession Clients Adopting

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”

Men Two Age School Three Literature Painting Hundred Dresses Aging Architecture Eighty

Author:Lord Byron

“A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old.”

Thinking Mind Two Book Hands Young Literature Pleasure Opinion Century Concern Dresses Privilege Mutual Passages Antiques Quaint

Book:Poems: Series I - III, Complete

Source: Poems: Series I - III, Complete

“We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.”

Way Reality Lying Order Literature Dresses Sweetest Fake People

Author:John le Carre