To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Joseph Addison Quotes

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people...

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people...

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people...

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people...