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Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes: Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.
         

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.


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