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“Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.”

May Use Fashion Fool Excuse Folly Knaves Knavery

Author:Charles Churchill

“Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.”

Children Fashion Fool Guides Folly Wisest

Author:George Crabbe

“Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.”

Firsts Looks Two Lasts Past Law Party Fashion Fool Description Customs Novelty Clash Legislators Precedent

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train, Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign Who shifts and changes all things but his shape, And would degrade her vot'ry to an ape, The fruitful parent of abuse and wrong, Holds a usurp'd dominion o'er his tongue, There sits and prompts him with his own disgrace, Prescribes the theme, the tone, and the grimace, And when accomplish'd in her wayward school, Calls gentleman whom she has made a fool.”

Source: Poems; to which is prefixed a memoir of the author by J. M'Diarmid

“A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.”

Fashion Fool Foe Tailors

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.”

Persons Names Fashion Fool Stones Foolish Silly Vain Obscure Doers Wanderers Foolish Person

Book:The Bible According to Mark Twain

Source: The Bible According to Mark Twain