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Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material. - [Style] The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail. - attributed to, "American Epigrams" by Brander Matthews in "Harper's Monthly" [Epigrams] The quill hath a good tongue. - [Quill] Dress does not give knowledge. [Sp., La ropa no da ciencia.] - Fables (XXVII) [Apparel] The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad. [Sp., Siempre acostumbra hacer el vulgo necio, De le bueno y lo malo igual aprecio.] - Fables (XXVIII) [Worth]
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