We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up. β¨ Mark Twain (2015). Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend, p.17, St. Martin's Press
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