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Honore de Balzac Quotes: Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.
         

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.


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