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• The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

  Florence Nightingale

  Lying, Science, Hygiene

  Letter to Medical Officer of Health, November (1891)

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• If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.

  Jerry Climer

  Cat, Heaven, Thrones

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• Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

  Mark Twain

  Neat And Tidy, Soul, Dresses

  "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

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• I think toilets are more important than temples.

  Narendra Modi

  Thinking, Important, Toilets

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• Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

  John Muir

  Dirty, Animal, Men

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

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• Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution.

  Donna Farhi

  Mind, Body, Maintaining

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.12, Macmillan

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• If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

  Ernie Pyle

  Funny, Long, Fleas

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• It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Hard Work, Age

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.26, Oxford University Press

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• All will come out in the washing.

  Francis Bacon

  Washing

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• Cleanliness drive is something that has touched every Indian.

  Narendra Modi

  Empowerment, India, Touched

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• For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

  Francis Bacon

  Body, Reverence, Dues

  Francis Bacon (1857). “Works of Francis Bacon: 3”, p.377

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• My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

  Chanakya

  Children, Desire, Poison

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• I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we were taught self reliance; we were taught to live within our income. You were taught that cleanliness is next to Godliness. You were taught self respect. You were taught always to give a hand to your neighbour. You were taught tremendous pride in your country. All of these things are Victorian values. They are also perennial values. You don't hear so much about these things these days, but they were good values and they led to tremendous improvements in the standard of living.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Pride, Grandmother

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• Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Essentials, Next, Made

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• All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Order, Sobriety, Moments

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1868). “The Chimney-corner”, p.32

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• I'm clean, I've always been clean.

  Barry Bonds

  Clean

  "Bonds goes back, forth / Stories differ about retiring" by Henry Schulman, www.sfgate.com. February 20, 2006.

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• Markets always change, and as soon as there's downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value.

  Donald Trump

  Realtors, Downturn, Majors

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.84, Ballantine Books

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• We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dirty, Water, Needs

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• The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Light, Air

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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• Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.

  Kyan Douglas

  Quaker, Bigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

  Trevanian

  Switzerland, Likes

  Trevanian (2005). “The Eiger Sanction: A Novel”, p.180, Crown

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• [Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Humility, Order, Justice

  Gretchen Rubin (2009). “The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Country, Children, Sunshine

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

  Frances Farmer

  Children, Father, Feelings

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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• Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

  Sean O'Casey

  Prayer, Men, Light

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