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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence.

Francis Quarles

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Francis Quarles
Age: 52 †
Born: 1592
Born: May 8
Died: 1644
Died: September 8
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Havering
Fashion
Precisely
Eye
Civilized
Become
Decent
Long
Till
Apparel
Ridiculous
Custom
Neither
Jury
Evidence
Customs
Early
Hath

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