Clothes are powerful things. Dressed in a tramp's clothes it is very…

Clothes are powerful things. Dressed in a tramp's clothes it is very difficult, at any rate for the first day, not to feel that you are genuinely degraded.

George Orwell

1933

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Clothes make the man Clothing

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Autobiography and memoir

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1933

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George Orwell

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 24.

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