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Quotation #33827 from Classic Quotes:

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)  

Notes about this Quotation

  • Often shortened to simply "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." [note by Michael Moncur, August 25, 2004]

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