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Fashion is the great governor of this world. It presides not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind. Indeed, the wisest of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at other times universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion.
Fashion is the great governor of this world. It presides not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind. Indeed, the wisest of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at other times universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion.
Approximate author period: c. 1730 AD · early modern
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- Henry Fielding
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- Approximate author period: c. 1730 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1707–1754)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 87 · printed citation: Fielding · subject: Fashion
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