“They say — people who ought to be ashamed of themselves do — that the consciousness of being well dressed imparts a blissfulness to the human heart that religion is powerless to bestow. I am afraid these cynical persons are sometimes correct.”

"On Dress and Deportment".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

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