In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. Thomas Jefferson

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• principle

Style is being yourself, but on purpose. Patricia Fripp

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If only I could figure out a way to make money by holding fashionable opinions decades prematurely. Charles Platt

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Only dead fish swim with the stream. Malcolm Muggeridge

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Only great minds can afford a simple style. Stendal

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• intellect
• intelligence

One of the causes of the troubles that beset us is the way our lives are guided by the example of others; instead of being set to rights by reason we're seduced by convention. Seneca

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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. Bertrand Russell

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Our choice of clothes can influence how people treat us. That's a view that every living human agrees upon. Most of us act upon that belief once or twice a day. When I get dressed, the first two questions I ask myself are 1) "Who is going to see me?" and 2) "What do I want them to think of me?" You probably do the same thing. If not, there's something deeply wrong with you, or possibly you're an engineer. Scott Adams

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• appearance

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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes and not a new wearer of the clothes. Henry David Thoreau

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