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“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”
― Coco Chanel

“To live content with small means.

To seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion.

To be worthy not respectable,
and wealthy not rich.

To study hard, think quietly, talk gently,
act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes,
and sages with open heart, to bear all
cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions,
hurry never.

In a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common.

This is to be my symphony.”
― William Henry Channing

“A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.”
― Coco Chanel

“Don't let the elegance act fool you," Varen said, drawing out his notepad. "She farts.”
― Kelly Creagh, Nevermore