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| Clothes make the man~Babylonian Talmud:Shabbath(c. 450)
In the Latin, "Vestis virum facit" with references to Homer, Quintilian and others.
The clothes are the man~Erasmus, Adagia (1523)
Clothes do much upon the wit, as weather Does on the brain; thence comes your proverb, "The taylor makes the man."~Ben Jonson, The Staple of Newes, act I, sc. 2. (1626)
Clothes make the gentleman or lady~William Scarborough, Chinese Proverbs, No. 365 (1875)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I arise in the morning, torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.~E. B. White
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