“Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.”
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“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
“It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 16.
“My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it.”
Letter to George William Fairfax (25 June 1786), published in The Writings Of George Washington (1835) by Jared Sparks, p. 175
1780s
Context: My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.
“You can get carried away with how things were once, and not how you need to make them better.”
Source: Wildlife (1990), p. 171
They Said It: Milton Bradley, Sports Illustrated, Adam Duerson, September 5, 2005, 2009-01-04 http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1112652/index.htm,
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