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You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

"Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello."

From Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 by Various

It was all "leather or prunello," as she said to herself;—it was all vanity,—and vanity,—and vanity! 

From The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony

“Well, for a choice,” says he, smiling, “and whether for sense or poetry, give me “‘Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow: The rest is all but leather and prunello.’

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

But with Cecilia it had been for many months as though all things had been made of leather and prunello.

From Kept in the Dark by Trollope, Anthony