“ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.”
Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 2, pg. 49.
(Buch I) (1867)
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