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Churchill, Charles

Fops take a world of pains, to prove that bodies can exist without brains; the former so fantastically drest, that the latter's absence may be safely guessed.

Cowper, William

A shallow brain, behind a serious mask; an oracle within an empty cask—the solemn fop!

Hugo, Victor

Foppery is the egotism  of clothes.

Johnson, Samuel

Foppery is never cured; it is of the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified.—Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

Shakespeare, William

The soul of this man is in his clothes.

Wolcot, John

Puppets, who, though on idiotism's dark brink, because they've heads, dare fancy they can think!

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