#neatness

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room. ↗

— William J. Harris

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Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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