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FASHION IS A POOR VOCATION.--Its creed, that idleness is a privilege, and
work a disgrace, is among the deadliest errors. Without depth of thought,
or earnestness of feeling, or strength of purpose, living an unreal
life, sacrificing substance to show, substituting the fictitious for
the natural, mistaking a crowd for society, finding its chief pleasure
in ridicule, and exhausting its ingenuity in expedients for killing
time, fashion is among the last influences under which a human being who
respects himself, or who comprehends the great end of life, would desire
to be placed.