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Show CLEANLINESS Cleanliness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence rever-ence to God. Bacon. So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man that it extends even to his moral character. Rumford. Early rising and much bathing are profitable to keep a man in health and to increase his riches and wisdom. wis-dom. Plato. Optimists look forward to the virtual vir-tual extinction of disease, but It will only be after children are taught cleanly habits from the very first, brought up in clean houses, and sew to clean schoolhouses through clean streets. Ellen H. Richards, "The Cost of Cleanness." |