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Niggards are oftentimes neat.
Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness.
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with.
I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.
Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
In South Korea, some 20 million people share just five surnames. Every one of Denmark's top 20 surnames ends in '-sen,' meaning 'son of,' a pattern that is replicated across Scandinavia. British surnames have never favoured such neatness, and we can be grateful for that.
