"I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights."

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The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. The `polish and pipeclay' school is not yet extinct, and it is easier for the mediocre intelligence to become an authority on buttons, than on tactics.

— B. H. Liddell Hart