Dreams.—Children of night, of indigestion bred.
—Churchill.
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We sacrifice to dress, till household joys
And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry,
And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires,
And introduces hunger, frost and woe,
Where peace and hospitality might have reign'd.
—Cowper.
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Those who think that in order to dress well, it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.
No real happiness is found
In trailing purple o'er the ground.
—Geo. D. Prentice.