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— Erica Jong"Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?"
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If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?
— Immanuel Kant
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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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