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• There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

  Juvenal

  Men, Eagles, Lust

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• Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Relief, Littles

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• What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mean, Feelings, Certainty

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• The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

  Molly Ivins

  Stupid, Memorable, Ignorance

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.104, Vintage

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• Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

  Bayard Taylor

  Verses, Wooing

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• Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

  Walter Scott

  Mystery, Womanhood

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• Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

  Joseph Joubert

  Criticism, Should, Amenities

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

  Ada Leverson

  People, Charming, Charmed

  Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.47, tredition

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• The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.

  Freya Stark

  People, Arabia, Levels

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.92, The Overlook Press

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• A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

  Merrill Markoe

  Real, Men, Want

  Merrill Markoe (1994). “How to be Hap-hap-happy Like Me”, Viking Press

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• If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.

  Duff Goldman

  Artist, Thinking, Cake

  "Duff Goldman: The Ace of Cakes On A Sugar High" by Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2011.

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• ...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.

  M.M. Kaye

  Life, Beautiful, Quality

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• Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Home, I Can

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1365, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Brave, Good Man

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• True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.

  Horace Bushnell

  Quality, Sin, Appearance

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.233

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• In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Real, Men

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• A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.

  Charles de Saint-Evremond

  Men, Relaxation, Use

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• When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Religious, Home, World

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• The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Secret, Alive, Journalism

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• In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Practice, Class

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• Men think wiles charming unless they find out your charms are wiles.

  Tyne O'Connell

  Men, Thinking, Charming

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• There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Death Of A Friend, Sorrow

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Gibson Lockhart (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.377

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• If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.

  Casey Neistat

  Lucky Charms, Instagram, Marshmallow

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• But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull and a bequest of March - wind lingers, chasing the squirrel from the tree and the children from the meadows. There is a fascination in walking through these bare early woods, – there is such a pause of preparation, winter's work is so cleanly and thoroughly done. Everything is taken down and put away.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Spring, Taken

  "The Procession of the Flowers: And Kindred Papers".

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