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“The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.”

Should Body Honesty Clothes Ordinary Increase Simplicity Neglect Modesty Lacking Dazzling Apparel Niceties

Author:Ambrose

“To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.”

Turns Clothes Ordinary Gardening Compost

Author:Guy Browning

“People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.”

People Today Used Clothes Ordinary Sunday Reverse Formal Attire Weekdays

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man”

Men Enough Rooms Lovers Clothes Ordinary Quantity One Love Ordinary Man Small Rooms

Author:Rajneesh

“He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?”

Men Has Beens Feelings Past Lying Sound Talking Listening Bed Normal Summer Clothes Ordinary Get Up Peaceful Evening Making Love Compulsion Summer Evening

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”

World Feels Should Taken Mystery Comfortable Clothes Ordinary Direct Experience Regions Closets Surroundings Refrigerators Invigorating Daily Routines

Book:Travels

Source: Travels

“jace's clothes had been clean,stylish,ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.”

Long Said Done Evil Black Clothes Ordinary Clean Expensive Ads Coats Jace Trenches Stylish Wool Trench Coats

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."”

Source: A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander