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CLEANLINESS
[ Also see Apparel Appearance Dirt Fastidiousness Life Purity Water ]

Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.
      - Joseph Addison

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
      - Joseph Addison

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
      - Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with the proud, shall put on pride.
      - Bible, Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha)
         (ch. XIII, v. 1)

All will come out in the washing.
  [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]
      - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),
        Don Quixote (I, 20)

God loveth the clean.
      - Koran, ch. IX

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
      - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),
        Lamb's Suppers (vol. II, last chapter)

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.
      - Ernie Pyle

So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.
      - Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford,
        Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical
         (ch. 3)

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.
      - William Shakespeare,
        King Henry the Fourth, Part I
         (Falstaff at V, iv)

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
      - The Talmud, Talmud--Division of Mishna

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
      - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens),
        A Curious Dream,
        "Facts concerning the Recent Resignation"

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch
  At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;
    Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch,
      Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
      - Henry Vaughan ("The Silurist"),
        The Seed Growing Secretly

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."
      - John Wesley, Sermon (XCII, On Dress)

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
      - Mae West


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