Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance...

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

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[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.

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Things do not change; we change.

—Henry David Thoreau

I stand in awe of my body.

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Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

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More quotations tagged with “fashion”

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

—Gilda Radner

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

—Geoffrey Chaucer

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

—P. J. O'Rourke

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

—George Bernard Shaw

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

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