There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson