“Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.”

" On the Clerical Character http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Political/ClericalCharacter.htm" (January/February 1818)
Political Essays (1819)

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English writer 1778–1830

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