Balderdash. I'm sorry but that is complete and utter balderdash. You may be the greatest Souther novelist of your time but you suck at quotes.

Feel free to judge me on the analysis of this phrase because my analysis is no more than a judgement, itself.

Mr. Twain did you understand the original meaning of the original "clothes" quote? Obviously not. The whole meaning of that saying is basically, the face value of a person, their job, their work, their *effect on the world*, has nothing to do with them being a good person. Take for an example a man I have known my whole life. My next door neighbor, Gunther Van Tassel.

Gunther works at Central Perk coffeehouse as a manager of some sort. In other terms, he serves coffee. Gunther Van Tassel is a grown man who serves coffee.

It is not a lucrative profession, nor is it a very impressing one either. It pays the bills.

Gunther has not really had an "effect on the world". People who have dined at the Perk for almost ten years (which is how long he has worked there) don't even know his last name. He knows theirs. A girl who has pined over mercilessly doesn't even know he exists. Even worse, she thinks he's gay! No "effect on the world".

He's a nice man, though.

I'm not a close friend to him (he doesn't have any) but when I do see him he is a very nice person. I bump into him in the hallways, I talk to him while waiting for laundry, sometimes, I sit with him on the roof when he goes out there to smoke a cigarette.

In truth, I don't know that much about Gunther. I do no one thing, Mr. Twain, his clothes don't make him.