Samuel Johnson Quotes About Fashion
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
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Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.
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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.
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Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
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