"Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive."

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Source : Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing

Lisa Birnbach

#Clothes Quotes #Wool Quotes #Looks Quotes

“St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: â€œThe dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.â€ No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.”
“The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they should also be conscious of the risk of inventing pointless 'technical' machinery which do not offer real explanations, but often just re-state the known facts in a more complex way.”
“The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization.”
“It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.”
“Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.”
“A few honest men are better than numbers.”

Source : Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)
“One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.”

Source : Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.
“Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.”

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