• Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

  Abba Goold Woolson
  American writer
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. expensiveness
2. gentlemen
3. frightens
4. matrimony
5. ideas

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Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony. by : Abba Goold Woolson

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