“A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.”
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“The tight thoughts and the loose face will go over the whole world.”
Quoted by Henry Wotton in a letter to John Milton, 13 April 1638, as published in Logan Pearsall Smith, The life and letters of Sir Henry Wotton http://books.google.com/books?id=OrY4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA381 (1907), Vol. 2, p. 381<br>Translation: ""Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose..."" attributed to Wotton in Vol. 1, p. 22 http://books.google.com/books?id=vbU4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA22
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