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The philosopher said "Washing is an extraordinary custom, we are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first nor any profit from the last. Many people consider that scourings supplementary to those are only due to habit. Now, habit is continuity of action, it is a most detestable thing and is very difficult to get away from. A proverb will run where a writ will not, and the follies of our forefathers are of greater importance to us than the well-being of our prosperity. The first person who washed was possibly a person seeking a cheap notoriety. Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unecessary labor, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again. We should seek, therefore, not to make ourselves clean, but how to attain a more unique and splendid dirtiness, and perhaps the accumulated layers of matter might, by ordinary geologic compulsion, become incorporated with the human cuticle and render clothing unnecessary."