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Lin Yutang

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All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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In Vogue, as quoted by The Reader's digest, Vol. 30-31 (1937), p. 69

 
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