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Women, like roses, should wear only their own colors, and emit no borrowed perfumes. - Rabbi Ben Azai (Aze) Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Women have that feminine sensuousness which delights in color and odor and richness of fabric. Their sense of beauty is untaught. A little lower in the scale of civilization, they would pierce their noses, and dye their fingernails, and wear strings of glass beads. - Mrs. L.G. Calhoun Women of society, as well as Hottentots, run naturally to ornaments and gewgaws. - Alexandre Dumas pere The love of ornament creeps slowly but surely into the female heart. - Anna Maria Hall (nee Fielding) (Mrs. Samuel Carter Hall) When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for. - Julia Ward Howe (Howel) Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous. - Douglas William Jerrold Ornaments were invented by modesty. - Joseph Joubert The true ornament of matrons is virtue, not apparel. - Justin (St. Justin Martyr) Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind. - William Shakespeare Ornament is but the gilded shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian; beauty, in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. - William Shakespeare Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy. - Laurence Sterne We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners. - Edwin Percy Whipple Around the neck what dross are gold and pearl! - Edward Young
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