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"Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency."

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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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