Lynn Thompson
speaker
669 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lynn Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Never mind that, my friends have a better residence, and so will I.
A dress of that pattern I must have.
I cannot afford it by a great deal, but who cares for that?
My neighbour had one from that pattern, and I must have one.
There are scores of men in the dungeons of the penitentiary who risked honour, business, everything in the effort to shine like others.
Though the heavens fall, they must be in the fashion.
The most famous frauds of the day have resulted from this feeling.
It keeps hundreds of men struggling for their commercial existence.
The trouble is that some are caught and incarcerated, if their larceny be small.
If it be great, they escape, and build their castle on the Rhine.
Men go into jail not because they steal, but because they did not steal enough.
Again, excessive fashion makes people unnatural and untrue.
It is a factory from which has come forth more hollow pretences and unmeaning flatteries and hypocrisies than the Lowell Mills ever turned out shawls and garments.
Fashion is the greatest of all liars.
It has made society insincere.
You know not what to believe.
When people ask you to come, you do not know whether or not they want you to come.
When they send their regards, you do not know whether it is an expression of their heart or an external civility.
We have learned to take almost everything at a discount.
Word is sent not at home, when they are only too lazy to dress themselves, and
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