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• What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

  Wilkie Collins

  Night, Temptation, Rooms

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• A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Graduation, Senior

  "A Few Tips for the Graduates". The Topeka Capital-Journal, abcnews.go.com. May 20, 2007.

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• She has a wash and wear bridal gown.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Insult

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• A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

  Marguerite Young

  Wedding, Ghouls, Strange

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• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Travel, Morning

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• Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Clothes, Justice

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Great Comedies and Tragedies”, p.795, Wordsworth Editions

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• And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

  William Blake

  Garden, Joy, Black

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.75, Routledge

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• Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And red to call the enchantment down White silk when our bodies burn Blue banners when the lost return Flame for the birth of a Nephilim And to wash away our sins. Gray for the knowledge best untold Bone for those who don't grow old Saffron lights the victory march Green to mend our broken hearts Silver for the demon towers And bronze to summon wicked powers -Shadowhunter children's rhyme

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Heart, Hunting

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• [Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Sides, Opinion

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1205, Simon and Schuster

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• Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him.

  Plutarch

  Daughter, Two, Said

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1870). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.425, Boston : Little, Brown

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• If you can dress as a stormtrooper and go to a laundromat, or wear a sexy cheese gown in public, you might start to find "normal" social interactions a little less daunting.

  Misha Collins

  Sexy, Littles, Might

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.

  Austin Scarlett

  Why Not, Littles, Tradition

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

  Jane Austen

  Fate, Impatient, Knows

  Jane Austen, Vivien Jones (2004). “Selected Letters”, p.30, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.

  Bette Midler

  Drinking, People, Smoking

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• Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.

  Donald Barthelme

  Witty, Cutting, Winning

  "Snow White (play)". "The Teachings of Don. B: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme, p. 309, 1992.

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• I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Heart, Hands, Lasts

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• I am in a fabulously lucky position in that I get to wear beautiful, beautiful gowns for functions, which I can then give back. That way, they're not sitting in my wardrobe with me looking at them and feeling guilty. I love that, and I think when people have a fabulous function to go to, I'd recommend renting.

  Helen Mirren

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown. Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown, filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends, singing "I won't ever be lonely again

  Conor Oberst

  Lonely, Morning, Sky

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• The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fashion, Clothes, Simplicity

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus”, p.32, 谷月社

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• Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.

  Lil Wayne

  Judging, Don't Judge Me, Black

  "Lil Wayne On Syrup: 'Everybody Wants Me To Stop ... It Ain't That Easy'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. February 28, 2008.

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• Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.

  Amy Lowell

  Hands, Water, Lovers

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Men, Women and Ghosts”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

  Walter Raleigh

  Hope, Giving, Joy

  'The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage'

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• Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art.

  Mindy Kaling

  Art, Structure, Chic

  "Mindy Kaling's Favorite Designer and What's Next for Her Character" by Nandini D'Souza, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 5, 2016.

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• When you have a gown, there's much more to be concerned about. Where is this crease falling? Are you making a weird shape with the dress? Are you doing the designer justice? With a bathing suit, it's more about you and the mood you convey.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Fall, Justice, Dresses

  "Brooklyn Decker is everywhere before movies' debut". Interview with Samantha Critchell, www.yahoo.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag.

  Joan Rivers

  Want, Toes, Tag

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.44, Penguin

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