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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) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK 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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